Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has confirmed she has received the results of a review into Australia’s migration system, and that she is prepared to make at least some of its content public before the May budget.
It is expected that some of its recommendations will include reduced red tape for employer-sponsored visas and the end of some labour market testing rules.
“A backlog of 1 million unprocessed visas in the middle of the biggest labour shortage that we have experienced in 70 years, a system that is rife with exploitation of migrant workers, which is not working for business, not working for migrants and not working for Australians”, O’Neil said in a statement to The AFR.
