There’s a cost to taking in more people,but there’s also a significant price to pay if we pull up the drawbridge.
An annual snapshot of the country’s infrastructure plans show $1 trillion worth of projects in the pipeline. But the country is short 300,000 workers.
Our analysis shows that while both major parties have influenced policy,long-term growth in migration – especially temporary migration – has been driven more by Coalition governments.
Australia will need at least half a million additional aged care workers by 2050. Current efforts to find them are just not working. We need to try something else.
As the federal government’s roundtable kicked off with broad agreement to tackle skills and tariffs,a former RBA governor launched an attack on Labor’s economic management.
Australia is in desperate need of tens of thousands of tradies over the next five years. Fixing the shortage all begins with tackling job snobbery.
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Hundreds of thousands of overseas-trained workers living in Australia have the skills we desperately need. We just need to activate them.
A blowout in construction costs since the pandemic continues to weigh on building costs. The government hopes pre-fab homes might ease price pressures.