{"id":895992,"date":"2026-09-18T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895992\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T01:52:10","slug":"australia-news-live-international-students-forced-to-consider-their-future-after-burkes-migration-overhaul-university-bodies-charities-slam-new-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/895992\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: International students forced to consider their future after Burke\u2019s migration overhaul; University bodies, charities slam new rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth has rejected warnings from Australian farmers that the cost of food will rise as a result of changes to the migration system.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the cost of food would increase, Rishworth told ABC\u2019s News Breakfast:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t accept the premise of what\u2019s being put forward. We have taken a responsible approach to migration, a sustainable approach to migration. I mean, what\u2019s really clear is that we\u2019ll still have access to backpackers. Indeed, backpackers in their second and third year will have to work in regional areas, there is also a number of other places that people can get agricultural workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/838ec086c2d99bcfae98ef87953f5af69b91b1f3.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth.Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n<p>She said farmers should consider using the Pacific Labor Mobility Scheme (PALM) \u2013 a program allowing eligible businesses to hire temporary workers from Pacific Island countries \u2013 to access agricultural workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a really important scheme that\u2019s potentially underutilised,\u201d Rishworth said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut more broadly, when it comes to migration, it is about taking a response that ensures that we have integrity in the system, that we have compliance in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth has rejected warnings from Australian farmers that the cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-895992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}