Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ACCI) CEO Andrew McKellar has today called for Australia to double its ‘skilled’ migrant intake to 200,000 people a year to address purported skills shortages and boost growth [my emphasis]:
One of the country’s leading business groups says annual skilled migration must nearly double to 200,000 over the next five years to prevent a “skills crunch”…
With the country’s growth potential curtailed by weak immigration following a decade of stagnating productivity growth, ACCI chief executive Andrew McKellar told The Australian “we now have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pursue landmark reform”…
