Make this one change before opening skilled visa floodgates

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The ‘Big Australia’ immigration shills continue to pile pressure on the Albanese Government to throw open Australia’s border, this time calling for an abolition of skilled occupation lists, reductions in visa fees, and the easing of bureaucratic processes surrounding immigration:

“Occupation lists need to go, they do not work,” Grattan Institute economic policy program director, Brendan Coates, says. “No one has been able to define how to calculate a skills shortage in a structured way using data.”

“Skilled occupation lists are probably on their way out,” concurs Gabriela D’Souza, senior economist for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.