Calls to let “the market” rip on skilled visas

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Professor Roger Wilkins, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Institute, has called for the abolition of skilled occupation lists (SOLs) and for skilled migrant numbers to be determined by ‘the market’:

Professor Roger Wilkins, Deputy Director of the Melbourne Institute, said the government should stop trying to “centrally-plan” skilled immigration outcomes by specifying the numbers of health, IT or infrastructure workers it wants.

“(We should) get rid of the skilled migration occupation list”…

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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.