Senior Australian business leaders have urged the next federal government to address the nation’s labour crisis by boosting migration to fill jobs, warning a failure to do so risks causing a slump in economic growth.
Read MoreThe Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) will make it easier for skilled workers in trades, engineering, and service fields to move from overseas to Karratha and Port Hedland to work.
Read MoreThe Morrison Government’s Migration Program will focus on skilled migration, with a return to a pre-pandemic composition of roughly two-thirds/one-third across the Skill and Family streams.
Read MoreAustralia's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in over 13 years, hitting 4 per cent in new data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
Read MoreAustralia should reset its temporary skilled migration program to lift Australians’ living standards, attract global talent, boost the budget, and reduce exploitation of workers.
Read MoreAustralia needs to relax its immigration rules to encourage more people to move to the country and help plug a severe labor shortage, as well as improve workplace diversity, top executives told a business forum.
Read MoreThe Australian Agriculture Visa program is being introduced to address workforce shortages in the agriculture sector by building on existing government programs.
Read MoreThe Morrison Government is continuing to make a range of visa enhancements in support of Australia’s COVID-19 economic recovery.
Read MoreDeputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says "Sydney is full" as he calls for migrants to be encouraged to move to the regions
Read MorePeople on temporary student visas say they encounter "frictions" which pose barriers to employment during and after Covid-19
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