Chaos for British workers who want to emigrate to Australia as government scraps visa programme for skilled foreign workers

I came across this story, when reqding through the main page of the Daily Mail. It was publish by Anthony Joseph for MailOnline and Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia. The article talks about the new decisions that the Australian government is putting in place regarding their visa programme.   

• Malcolm Turnbull's government is abolishing 457 visas for foreign workers  
• Jobs including pilots, butchers, web developers will be scrapped on new scheme
• 'Australian workers must have priority for Australian jobs,' PM Turnbull said
• Current 457 visa holders will NOT be affected by the shocking changes 
• Around 18,000 British citizens are on 457 visas - the second highest nationality 

Britons dreaming of a new life in Australia have been dealt a major blow after its Prime Minister scrapped the visa programme for skilled foreign workers. The 457 visa programme, which is currently used by around 18,000 British citizens, will end tomorrow and will be replaced by a new one.  Australia's Department of Immigration published a list of jobs removed from the new visa regime, which includes pilots, butchers, flight attendants, futures traders, web developers, public relations managers and journalists.

According to the Australian Government, by the end of last month, there were 177,390 457 visa holders in Australia.

The main countries of citizenship for primary visa holders in Australia were India (19,360), the UK (18,270), China (6,950) and Ireland (6,780).

And the largest numbers were employed in New South Wales (40,430) followed by Victoria (23,310) and Western Australia (14,790).

The top industries of employment for primary visa holders were accommodation and food services (15,260), other services (13,890) and information, media and telecommunications (10,030).

His programme also includes a longer-term four year visa where workers will need to meet a higher standard of English.

People will need to undergo a criminal record check and show work experience. 

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the shock decision won't affect current Australian visa holders.

'There will be a grandfathering arrangement. They will continue under the conditions of that visa.'

 

They've taken her': Nanny who looked after Madeleine McCann reveals despair of Kate and Gerry when they discovered she had gone missing at Portugese resort which was so unsafe child minders were given rape alarms to walk home

This story was published by the Daily Mail by Amie Gordon For Mailonline. It refers to the ongoing story regarding the search for missing Madeleine McCann, who disappeared from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May, 2007

• Nanny who looked after Madeleine McCann has broken her silence after 10 years
• Said she is haunted by the image of Gerry McCann desperately trying to find her
• Child minder said Madeleine's devastated mother Kate cried, 'They've taken her'
• Claimed the resort was considered so unsafe nannies were given rape whistles

A child minder who looked after Madeleine McCann has broken her silence nearly ten years after the three-year-old went missing. The witness, who was working at the Portuguese resort where Madeleine vanished on May 3, 2007, said she is still haunted by the night's events a decade on.

She said Gerry McCann desperately tried to find his missing daughter as his wife Kate wailed, 'They've taken her'.

The woman, who has not been named, reportedly looked after Madeleine several times. She told The Mirror the resort Madeleine vanished from was considered so unsafe nannies were given rape whistles and told not to go out alone.

She said: '[Kate] was pacing up and down. The worst possible thing had just happened to her. 'She was crying, but almost in a catatonic state, and Gerry was very distressed. 'That's the one thing I really remember from him, looking under the cars. I can't forget that.'

The woman also claimed police missed out 'whole chunks' of information during their investigation and took some 90 minutes to arrive at the scene.  She said there was 'no way' the McCann's had any involvement in their daughter's disappearance.

An insider said police had found a person who was close by when the three-year-old went missing while on holiday in the Algarve resort of Praia da Luz in 2007.  The source said: ‘There is just one person who detectives want to speak to, who was near the area where Madeleine disappeared almost ten years ago. An international search has been under way to find them.’

In addition, the Portuguese detective who led the search for Madeleine McCann has promised to 'clean out' her grief-stricken parents by suing them for damaging his reputation.

Goncalo Amaral, 57, claimed in a book that Madeleine died at the McCann's holiday house in Praia da Luz and Kate and Gerry covered it up.

The McCanns won a libel case against Amaral in 2015, but this was overturned on appeal and that decision upheld in another court.

This means Amaral is now able to sue the McCanns for damages potentially totalling tens of thousands of pounds.

 

North Korea vows to conduct WEEKLY missile tests and threatens 'all-out war' if Trump is 'reckless enough to use military means'

I found this news article on the Daily Mail page. It was published by Alex Matthews For Mailonline and talks about Vice Presidents’ Mike Pence’s visit to the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea.

• VP first visited a military base near the DMZ as tensions between the US and North Korea were ratcheted up
• Pence arrived at Camp Bonifas on Monday morning for a briefing with military leaders
• After North Korea's failed test National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said 'all our options are on the table' to try to 'avoid the worst'
• Frantic talks were taking place with allies including China to 'develop a range of options' regarding N Korea
• Trump and McMaster hope China will convince its neighbor to stop the crisis from escalating

 

North Korea has threatened to launch weekly missile tests after US Vice President Mike Pence warned that the 'era of patience' with Kim Jong-un is over.

Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol has ramped up the tension between the two nations by saying: 'We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.'

He also said that an 'all out war' was a possibility if the US responded by taking military action against Pyongyang.

The secretive state's deputy U.N. ambassador has also accused Washington of turning the Korean peninsula into 'the world's biggest hotspot' and creating 'a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment.'

Kim In Ryong told a news conference today that U.S.-South Korean military exercises being staged now are the largest-ever 'aggressive war drill.'

He said North Korea's measures to bolster its nuclear forces are self-defensive 'to cope with the US vicious nuclear threat and blackmail.'

Before adding that his country 'is ready to react to any mode of war desired by the US.'