Decades of mass immigration haven't stopped skills shortages

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at 2:45 pm on July 12, 2021 | 9 comments
ABC’s business editor, Ian Verrender, has recently done a superb job debunking the business lobby and Coalition’s incessant claim that Australia is experiencing chronic skills shortages, thereby necessitating the large-scale importation of foreign workers (see here).
Today Verrender has repeated the dose, questioning why purported skills shortages have persisted across the economy despite decades of mass immigration:
A quick flick through the Skilled Occupation List for workers from abroad shows everything from carpenters to chief executives, chefs and composers, clothing trade workers. And that’s just the Cs.

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