Australia to Focus on Attracting Medical, IT and Trades Professionals
Australia’s Immigration and Citizenship Minister Chris Evans said the country will need to speed up the visas of migrants especially those in the medical, Key IT, engineering and construction sectors. There was a sudden contraction in the number of skilled vacancies in Australia. The fall in the skilled vacancy index was supposedly the biggest since 1990.
There was already a prevalent shortage of trades people. That contributed to the lack of skilled people in the building and construction sector to meet the demand of the growing population. With strong labour laws and unions, Australia can never ‘import’ cheap labour like what we have done in Singapore.
