A major review into the nation’s immigration program will urge the Albanese government to remove a blanket requirement that employers put out job advertisements before recruiting skilled migrants.
when he and his wife came to Australia in 1994. An astrophysicist today has to wait an average of 178 days to receive a skilled visa to Australia.After being abolished by the Coalition in 2001, labour market testing was reintroduced by the Labor government in 2013 and then expanded by the Coalition in 2018.
“Our current migration system is broken – the system needs a complete overhaul to ensure it is integrated with domestic skills development and workforce planning, while addressing migrant worker exploitation and rebalancing our system toward permanent migration,” she said. It will also seek to tackle the explosion of temporary visas to nearly 2 million a year, double what it was 15 years ago.Mary Anne Kenny, associate professor of law at Murdoch University and a lawyer who works on migration issues, said the system had become “incredibly complicated”.
“Simpler processes in order to attract the best migrants we can and to be competitive would be a really positive thing coming out of the review,” she said.“Temporary migration can be beneficial, but there has to be an opportunity for some way of being able to make it permanent.”
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