THE CONVERSATION | This is probably the most balanced and informed article on Australias immigration program for some time. It concludes as follows: Australia needs a more considered, coherent and transparent approach to determining how many temporary migrant workers to admit, under what conditions and for what jobs. One way forward is to develop an explicit and formal entry pathway for low and semi skilled migrant workers. This should be subject to stringent labour market testing to ensure that the skill shortages are genuine and to ensure that local job opportunities, and apprenticeship and training programs, especially for young Australians, are not being displaced. If there is a genuine skill shortage, then it is acceptable for this to be filled by a migrant worker but if the skill shortage would be better met through training domestic workers, then this is the more appropriate outcome. Associate Professor Alexander Reilly and Dr Joanna Howe are Lecturers in Law and members of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit at the University of Adelaide.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:27:55 +0000
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