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22/03/2023

Onshore migrants living anywhere in Melbourne can now apply for the Skilled Work Regional visa that allows skilled migrants to live and work in regional Victoria.

In a significant move to fulfil the remaining places allocated for its skilled visa nomination program for 2022-2023, Victoria has opened its skilled work regional visa (Subclass 491) to applicants living and/or working in metropolitan Melbourne.

13/01/2023

Employers want jobs lists that decide which skilled migrants can come to Australia to be scrapped for high-income earners to give businesses an edge in the global race for talent.

Business groups and experts say the skilled occupation lists are outdated, fail to identify future job gaps and create unnecessarily onerous layers of bureaucracy.

10/10/2022

Drastic calls to tackle Victoria’s worker shortage have been made ahead of the federal budget later this month.

Peak business body Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) unveiled its wish list on Monday, including plans to battle the worker shortage crippling multiple industries.

Top of the agenda is to allow more flexibility in the visa conditions for migrant workers so they can work in other areas of need when there is a pressing demand.

This would result in the likes of a migrant nurse employed to work on the ward of a hospital to also be able to work in an aged care facility.

The plan would recognise more foreign qualifications, work experience and training of migrant workers, particularly in areas with critical skills shortages.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/states-big-move-to-tackle-worker-crisis-in-victoria/news-story/4379c96541f20e674206aded939d0360

10/10/2022

Drastic calls to tackle Victoria’s worker shortage have been made ahead of the federal budget later this month.

Peak business body Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) unveiled its wish list on Monday, including plans to battle the worker shortage crippling multiple industries.

Top of the agenda is to allow more flexibility in the visa conditions for migrant workers so they can work in other areas of need when there is a pressing demand.

This would result in the likes of a migrant nurse employed to work on the ward of a hospital to also be able to work in an aged care facility.

The plan would recognise more foreign qualifications, work experience and training of migrant workers, particularly in areas with critical skills shortages.

Drastic calls to tackle Victoria’s worker shortage have been made ahead of the federal budget later this month.

09/10/2022

The federal government has made it easier for GPs, teachers, early educators and aged-care nurses with a lower grasp of English, less experience or lower qualifications to apply for work in Australia as it casts a wider net overseas to fill the national skills shortage.

Teachers, aged-care nurses and GPs with a lower grasp of English, less experience or qualifications can now apply for Australian work visas.

31/08/2022

Australia’s net overseas migration will not fully recover until 2024 as the nation faces a “cumulative” loss of more than 600,000 people due largely to the pandemic, an economic thinktank says.

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (Ceda) has released a report calling on the Albanese government to “outline how it intends to address the Covid-19 induced drag on the migration system”, specifically by raising migration and clearing visa processing backlogs.

Thinktank calls on government to streamline visas to address ‘Covid-induced drag’ on migration system

27/08/2022

A key business group is calling for a temporary lift on caps for work and holiday visas ahead of the jobs and skills summit next week.

The Business Council of Australia is also urging the government to boost the permanent migration cap to 220,000 temporarily to make up for the shortfall in migration during the pandemic.

The council recommended lowering the cap back to 190,000 places after two years.

The Business Council wants the permanent migration cap upped to over 200,000 places temporarily to make up for the migration slowdown during the pandemic.

25/08/2022

Immigration expert claims government has ‘no plan’ to combat worker crisis

Australia is facing a serious worker crisis, and an immigration expert says there is “no plan” to fix the problem. The Australian government has already committed to a skilled migration intake of 110,000 for 2022-23, but immigration expert Abul Rizvi claims the government hasn’t thought the in...

22/08/2022

Australia faces a shortfall of civil engineers, chefs and childcare workers over the next five years, the federal government fears as new research shows the nation’s tight anti-COVID immigration rules have left potential skilled workers wary of seeking to move Down Under.

Ahead of next month’s jobs and skills summit, the government says there is a looming shortage of workers across a string of key sectors, backing its plan to lift investment in the vocational education sector.

The government has identified Australia’s most in-demand professions, but new research shows skilled migrants are put off by complex migration rules and the strict COVID border rules.

22/08/2022

There are plenty of ideas on the table for next month's Jobs Summit, but there is one outcome that seems all but locked in.

Australia's permanent migration intake is going to change, likely both in size and shape.

It will grow from 160,000 people a year to possibly as high as 200,000 people a year.

There are plenty of ideas on the table for next month's Jobs Summit, but there is one outcome that seems all but locked in.

21/08/2022

'Needlessly complex': report calls for overhaul of Australia's skilled migration program.

With skilled migration at a fraction of pre-pandemic levels, Deloitte Access Economics says Australia needs to show it's "open for business" by cutting red tape.

21/08/2022

WA Goverment: "New settings to make WA the most attractive State for skilled migrants" https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2022/08/New-settings-to-make-WA-the-most-attractive-State-for-skilled-migrants.aspx