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 migrant intake is expected to be increased to as high as 200,000 a yearSome have called for wider changes and scrapping of the occupation listIt will grow from 160,000 people a year to possibly as high as 200,000 people a year.
From a low point in the late 1990s, Australia's permanent migration program grew fairly steadily to eventually hover around 190,000 people a year in the mid-2010s — right where the migration cap was set.The number of visas being granted started falling short of the migration cap until the cap was eventually slashed under the Morrison government to 160,000 places in 2019-20.The cap is still sitting where the Morrison government left it, at 160,000, but consensus has been building for change.
Skilled workers have traditionally accounted for two-thirds of Australia's permanent migration intake.
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