Terms

Terms, privacy, and disclosure.

The Australia Migration Model (TAMM) is an unofficial public-interest tool. It is designed to make migration trade-offs easier to inspect, not to give personal advice or replace official sources.

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About

The Australia Migration Model (TAMM) was created by Chris Wolski. It is an independent project and is not affiliated with the Australian Government, the Department of Home Affairs, the ABS, Treasury, or any other official source cited on this site.

The project aims to show both sides of the migration argument: the economic and social value migration can create, and the capacity pressure that can emerge when housing, recognition systems, or city infrastructure do not keep pace. The simulator scores the measurable economic and capacity channels, not cultural identity or individual visa outcomes.

Use of the Site

The simulator, charts, glossary, and source links are provided for general information, discussion, research, and commentary. The model should be treated as a simplified policy explainer, not as a forecast or decision engine.

The settings, assumptions, scores, and charts may change as the model improves or as new official data becomes available.

Related Projects

TAMM is separate from Chris Wolski's practical trade-migration projects, but they sit in the same wider interest in skilled migration, trades capacity, and Australia-facing labour-market questions.

Handwerker nach Australien is a German-language orientation site for qualified tradespeople considering Australia. Hire German Trades is an employer-facing site for Australian businesses exploring whether German-trained tradespeople may be a practical fit.

Disclaimer

Nothing on this site is migration, legal, financial, tax, investment, housing, or policy advice. The simulator uses public data and simplified assumptions to illustrate trade-offs. It cannot account for individual circumstances, all visa rules, all government programs, or the full macroeconomic effects of migration.

Official figures can be revised, and some model assumptions are deliberately approximate. Always check the original source documents and seek appropriate professional advice before relying on migration, legal, financial, or policy information.

Privacy

TAMM is a static website. It does not require an account, payment, or provide personal information to use the simulator, charts, glossary, or sources. The simulator runs in the visitor's browser.

The contact link opens the visitor's email app. If a message is sent, the sender's email provider and the project's email-routing provider process that message in the usual way. Sensitive personal information should not be included in a general feedback email.

The hosting provider may process ordinary technical information such as IP address, browser details, requested pages, and timestamps as part of serving and securing the site. If analytics, payments, forms, comments, mailing lists, or accounts are added later, this notice should be updated before those features go live.

For general information about privacy policies and personal information in Australia, see the OAIC's privacy policy guidance.

External Links and Sources

The site links to official data, reports, and methodology pages. Those external sites are controlled by their own publishers and may change after being cited here.

The canonical evidence trail for this project is the Sources page.

Changes

These terms may be updated as the project develops. Last updated: 22 May 2026.