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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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at 12:15 am on May 27, 2021 | 8 comments
The skilled stream is the largest component of Australia’s permanent migration program accounting for 61% (110,000) of Australia’s 179,000 permanent migrants (including the humanitarian intake) before COVID hit in 2019:
Australia’s permanent migrant intake is dominated by ‘skilled’ visas.
Empirical survey data from the Department of Home Affairs’
Continuous Survey of Australia’s Migrants shows that Australia’s permanent migration program is failing to attract highly paid and highly skilled migrants to Australia.
As show in the next summary table, recent permanent migrants experienced higher rates of unemployment and are paid less than the general population: