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"Australia’s “broken” migration system encourages 1.8 million guest workers to
be “permanently temporary” due to strict caps on permanent migration, a
landmark review has found.
The migration review, to be released on Thursday by the home affairs minister,
Clare O’Neil, calls for “major reform”, warning that fixing Australia’s
migration system “cannot be achieved by further tinkering and incrementalism”.
While it is still unclear how much of the review the Albanese government will
adopt, a section released before O’Neil’s appearance at the National Press Club
indicated it would be pushed to ditch skills lists, allow more workers in
caring occupations and tackle long wait times for family visas.
The review called for “smooth and predictable migration” to better enable
planning of infrastructure.
It noted that while “successive governments” had imposed caps on permanent
migration – currently 195,000 – “the temporary migrant cohort has been demand
driven and has doubled in size since 2007 and now stands at 1.8 million
people”.
It was “hard to conceive” that Australians would willingly agree to a system
“akin to guest-workers seen in some other countries”, the review said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
