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"Australia’s construction industry is facing a perfect storm: enormous targets
for building – 1.2 million new homes and A$230 billion worth of infrastructure
over the next five years – at the same time as net migration is forecast to
halve.
Without as many migrants, Australia might not have the workforce it needs to
meet these targets.
Unless it does something different. Our team at the University of Technology
Sydney has been examining the barriers to employing existing migrants in the
construction industry, and we find they are substantial.
Migrants who arrived in Australia in the past five years account for only 2.8%
of Australia’s construction workforce, but 4.4% of the entire Australian
workforce.
Migrant engineers are significantly more likely than Australian-born engineers
to be unemployed or underemployed – working at a more junior level than their
skills and experience warrant."
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
