A skills shortage? Many of the skilled workers the nation needs are already living here.

620,000 workers who could solve our skills crisis are hiding in plain sight

Hundreds of thousands of overseas-trained workers living in Australia have the skills we desperately need. We just need to activate them.

  • Melinda Cilento andViolet Roumeliotis

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Poor pay rates have made it difficult to attract long- term staff into aged care.

It’s not a generation war,charging the wealthy more is essential to fix our aged care disaster

There is a crisis in aged care:beds are empty,while people are being forced into hospitals due to a lack of beds. Reforms are urgently required.

  • Melinda Cilento andCassandra Winzar