The system isn’t working well – and among the biggest losers are state governments themselves.
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Defining skill shortage by lists of occupations is inflexible for a rapidly changing labour market. Australia needs a different approach to organise its temporary skilled migration programs.
Australia has traditionally only offered permanent residence to skilled migrants. That might have to change, as countries like Japan are already showing.
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Public Policy, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer in Population Geography, Adelaide University
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Deputy Program Director (Migration), Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute