Fewer than 1 per cent of the nearly 60,000 permanent visa applications the Albanese government is fast-tracking to fix dire shortages in schools and hospitals are education or health professionals.
for the summit, saying unions will resist a return to an “open-ended” temporary skilled visa system.
NSW Department of Education documents in May showed 1906 permanent teaching positions were vacant across the state – 67 per cent higher than at the same time last year. Of the 355,200 temporary visa applications offshore, fewer than 6000 were skilled workers in occupations deemed to be in shortage.
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