Ahead of the government's jobs and skills summit, the prime minister says skilled migration needs to be matched with training Australians.
, but said migration was "not the only part" of addressing the labour shortage,
In his opinion piece, Mr Keane said he wants tens of thousands of outstanding visa applications for skilled migrants to be fast-tracked as soon as possible. "They are a handbrake on business activity and Daniel Andrews and Dominic Perrottet both wrote to me a little while ago and that is part of the context of having the jobs and skills summit," Mr Albanese said after touring a jeweller's workshop in Sydney.
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