Australia’s ‘skilled’ migration system fails again

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Australians are continually told that we need to run a high immigration policy to alleviate skills shortages.

The people making this claim never acknowledge that Australia’s population has ballooned by 8.3 million this century via record net overseas migration, yet skills shortages are worse than ever.

Recruitment data from Jobs & Skills Australia has once again exposed the fallacy of importing migrants to address skills shortages.

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About the author
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.