This afternoon, Western Australia’s Premier Mark McGowan suddenly announced his resignation — and not just from the role of Premier; he appears to be planning to end his political career altogether.The reason: he is simply exhausted and has given everything he has.

Generally speaking, a change of Premier doesn’t have much impact on state nomination policy. Whether changes are made or not, the state’s migration policy moves to its own rhythm — it has little to do with whether the Premier changes.What’s more, even with a new Premier, Western Australia is still governed by Labor, so the policy direction is very likely to stay consistent.

So what will Western Australia’s policy look like in the new financial year?

Over this period, the Newstarsec team has been constantly on the road, attending all manner of migration-related launches, information sessions, seminars and more…. Today we attended Western Australia’s information session.

On 29 May, Kirk (head of Melbourne and Hobart) and Victor (head of Perth and Canberra) attended, in Melbourne, an information session jointly hosted by the Western Australian Government and STUDY Perth.

The information session was divided into three main parts.

Part one was the Western Australian Government outlining the state nomination situation for the current and new financial years

Part two was STUDY Perth promoting study in Western Australia

Part three was open discussion between all parties

Western Australian Government

State nomination quotas to be revealed within weeks; new financial year WA state nomination policy coming soon

1. State officials said Western Australia expects to have its new financial year quota approved within the next few weeks. As previously indicated, they will be pushing for 10,000 places — whether they are approved for that number remains to be seen.

Going by the practice of the previous two financial years, all states’ nomination quotas are announced together, so the other states’ quotas should also become known around the same time. It’s already late May, so the quotas will likely come in late June and early July — keep a close eye on the period around 1 July.

2. Western Australia’s state nomination policy will be fine-tuned for the new financial year

–– Western Australia will also publish its new financial year invitation rules and policy on its official website soon. There won’t be major changes, though some occupations in short supply may be added to the priority ranking — possibly occupations in engineering, construction and healthcare

–– Not only will the new financial year be broadly consistent with the current one; state officials said Western Australia will maintain an active and stable policy for at least the next 2–3 years

—Invitations in the new financial year will keep the same regularity as this year — that is, at least one invitation round per month, issued within a relatively set window each month

3. Processing is expected to speed up in the new financial year

As everyone knows, one of the problems with WA state nomination this financial year has been that processing is too slow. Pre-invitations are issued steadily each month, but the processing of the full formal nomination submitted after a pre-invitation has been painfully slow — it has only just progressed to early 2023.

The state government said it is continuing to work hard to resolve this. The entire migration-related team is now three times its original size, so processing speeds in the new financial year should be much more favourable.

STUDY Perth

Study in Western Australia and enjoy one of the most favourable local international-student-to-migration pathways, plus plenty of support programmes.

As a representative of the institutions, STUDY Perth is also working hard to encourage overseas and interstate students to choose Western Australia for their studies.

One of the reasons: Western Australia’s state nomination policy is arguably the most supportive of all when it comes to local international students migrating.This financial year’s policy is that if your occupation is on the list, you have four 6s in English, and you have a skills assessment, you can apply for the Subclass 190 without work experience or a job offer, with plenty of opportunities to be invited.By the second half of the financial year, even former WA graduates who are no longer in the state could be invited. The points required were very low too — most occupations, including popular ones, only needed 65–80 points to be invited.

The state government also said its policy bias in favour of international-student migration will continue.

On top of that: the Western Australian Government provides international students with all kinds of support policies. For example, if you study a master’s in Western Australia, accompanying dependants can attend local public schools for free. There are also many programmes that help international students and their dependants find work.

First stop on the “roadshow” promoting Western Australia

The Western Australian Government and STUDY Perthsession in Melbourne was only the first stop on their tour. Over the coming days they will also visit cities such as Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast to promote migration and study in Western Australia. They also hope to hold such “roadshow” opportunities regularly every year, bringing Western Australia’s institutions and related organisations out to engage directly with more industry professionals across Australia.

They also plan to arrange information sessions aimed directly at students, to communicate with international students and applicants.

Victor with Western Australian state officials

Victor and Kirk with STUDY Perth officials

Western Australia invitations

Low points · Broad occupations · Low barriers

Western Australia has so far issued one invitation round at the start of each month, so there may be one final round in early June. The most recent May round looked like this:

1、1,600 invitations were issued, of which 1,500 were for the Subclass 491. There should still be quota for the Subclass 190, but the state government prefers to clear the backlog of applications first

2、Invitation points sat at EOI 65–85. The local graduate stream and the general stream (suited to non-WA graduates) still kept low scores, and the occupations invited were very broad

2. The general stream sch2 (suited to non-WA graduates) still insisted on inviting people already onshore in Western Australia

For more detailed analysis, see: Western Australia’s May round issued 1,600 invitations! Popular fields like accounting, IT and engineering only needed 60–65 points!

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Around this time last year, Western Australia was the first state to release its 2022–23 financial year state nomination policy and occupation list. We saw it then as a dark horse with huge potential. Now, with the 2022–23 financial year drawing to a close, the state government has made it abundantly clear that Western Australia doesn’t just want to be a one-off dark horse — it wants to stay the course and become a long-term choice for study and migration.

From here, we will also be launching a weekly “Inside Western Australia” feature series，, lifting the slightly mysterious veil on Western Australia and dispelling some misconceptions and rumours, to help you make a better choice!

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