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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Designated Area Migration Agreements</name>
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          <heading>Designated Area Migration Agreements</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="5571" kind="question">
        <name>In reply to Mr SZAKACS</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Cheltenham</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-09-23">
            <name>Designated Area Migration Agreements</name>
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        <text id="20210923fea0863f649144a4b0002199">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="5571">Mr SZAKACS (Cheltenham)</by> (4 August 2021).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.G. PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Innovation and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2021-09-23">
            <name>Designated Area Migration Agreements</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3124">The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley—Minister for Innovation and Skills):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The reference to the increase in age limit to 35 applies to the youth mobility schemes of each country (i.e. Working Holiday Maker program in Australia) not employer-sponsored visas under an SA DAMA.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The South Australian government is aware that commitments in the mobility chapter of the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations: agreement in principle<term></term>document will allow for companies to sponsor visas committed in the FTA without first having to prove that a national of the country in question could not be hired to do the job, through the reciprocal removal of economic needs tests. </inserted>
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          <inserted>The state government is not aware of which visas will be committed in the FTA and whether or not it will apply to the DAMAs, as this is a commonwealth government arrangement.</inserted>
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