Australia wants more temporary migrants with the skills to match labour shortages, but the numbers create a political headache in the midst of a housing crisis.
would be a little over half what is now expected. Much of the increase is driven by international students returning in even higher numbers, along with working holiday-makers.That basic equation is unlikely to change. Even if Treasury is correct that the post-COVID bulge loses some momentum next financial year, it still expects net overseas migration to amount to another 315,000 people in 2023-2024.
That imbalance is what Labor promises to fix, along with improving and streamlining what has become a cumbersome, inefficient process of matching the right skilled migrants with the right skill shortages.Yet, while the government will keep the number of permanent migrants it accepts capped at 195,000 a year, it doesn’t explain how it plans to manage a backlog of most of those already living here on temporary visas.
So, while O’Neil is considered to be doing a good job cleaning up a neglected and clogged system, the policy contradictions remain.
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