^ It's arguably unnecessary given that the best way to learn a language is living in a country that uses it. It's a nice bonus when someone can hit the ground running but its importance in the points system is disproportionate so one has to wonder what the real motivation is.
http://www.visabureau.com/australia/...ints-test.aspx
To get the full 20 points - lol worth as much as a PhD - one needs IELTS 8 (the boundary between C1 and C2), which in my 14 years experience as a language teacher is very very rare in people just educated in the school system of a non-English-speaking country.
Of course it's up to you how you decide who you take. There are no second and third generation "British Australians", only Australians - so if cultural homogenity is your aim you're running a strategy that seems designed to promote it without being absolutely explicit.
Actually I'm already regretting posting the link - pretty soon we are going to have Remainers posting stuff like "Leavers want an Australian-style points system, but that system gives extra points for having worked in
Australia, why is that appropriate for
Britain?" - and not realising you can just change the points targets and how points are awarded.
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