Nine out of 10 new jobs in Australia over the past year were in occupations that typically require a qualification, prompting a federal cabinet minister to warn that Australia needs to invest more in education and training to boost the skilled workforce.
by overhauling the migration system to better target skilled migrants, as well as reform the vocational education sector.
, but he believed the previous government’s lack of investment in skills and training, and its refusal to support to temporary visa holders during the pandemic made the problem worse. “We can’t be overly reliant on skilled migration pathways even though that will always be a feature of supplying skills to the labour market,” he said.
He also said there were significant opportunities after the pandemic for jobs in “sovereign capability” to make the country more self-reliant, which included defence manufacturing as well as medicines.
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