Engineers Australia
Unless Australia’s skilled migration program is overhauled, and more support provided to migrants and employers, our nation’s engineering capability is at risk.
That is the warning from Engineers Australia in its submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration inquiry into Australia’s skilled migration program.
Engineers Australia CEO Dr Bronwyn Evans said that while demand for engineers was high, the outcomes for migrant engineers proved the current system was no longer working.
“We desperately need skilled migration to fill the gap between the number of engineers required and what universities and the local market can supply. Yet once here, overseas-born engineers experience higher unemployment (7.6%) than their Australian-born peers (3.7%), and only 40.9% end up working in an engineering role,” Dr Evans said.
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21 April 2021 9:59am
The Joint Standing Committee on Migration will hold a series of public hearings in Melbourne, Albury and Shepparton from 21–23 April 2021.
The Committee has planned a busy program of public hearings and site inspections to investigate in more depth the challenges facing businesses and organisations who need to find and hire skilled migrants to fill job vacancies.
“The Committee is looking forward to hearing from groups such as EY and CEDA who have considered this issue in detail, as well as exploring the practical difficulties faced by Australian business owners who have experienced navigating the skilled migration program,” Mr Leeser said.
Major parties have swapped sides on immigration, more or less
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Every few hundred thousand years, the earth’s magnetic poles switch places. North becomes South and vice versa. Politically a similar phenomenon is taking place between Labor and Liberal on the topic of immigration.
A year ago, Australia was in lockdown. Though we are no longer confined to our homes, as a nation we are still under house arrest. We cannot leave without a permit, nor can we return without difficulty. Migration to Australia is all but impossible. The population has shrunk for the first time since World War 1.
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