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21/02/2025

In defence of Australia’s ‘golden ticket’ visa scheme (c) Peter van Vliet CEO of the Migration Institute of Australia
The great majority of Significant Investor Visa holders are just very good business people with money to invest in Australia to help create innovative businesses and jobs.
The Significant Investor Visa required visa holders to invest a minimum of $5 million in the economy. In the 10 years of its operation since its implementation by Labor the visa brought in up to $40 billion in additional capital into Australia, including the required $15 billion in complying investments and further additional investments by visa holders.

Innovative projects funded by the former visa include the “HotDoc”
medical appointments application used daily by about 8 million active patients and 21,000 doctors to deliver healthcare services.
The company Carbon Revolution, which manufactures carbon fibre wheels in Geelong, Victoria, and employs 650 people, was partly funded by the Significant Investor Visa program in partnership with the Victorian government.
Another company assisted by the Significant Investor Visa is Morse Micro, which employs 122 staff, developing Wi-Fi chips in Sydney. Other successful services companies assisted by this visa include CitrusAd, Liquid Instruments, and Paisley Park.

Australia has some of the best visa-vetting programs in the world and our national security agencies all play a role in ensuring visa applicants are of the highest standard.
The great majority of significant investor visa holders are just very good business people with money to invest in Australia to help create innovative businesses and jobs.

It’s not just the government that conducts checks on Significant Investment Visa holders, Australian financial institutions also conduct further know your-customer and anti-money laundering checks after the funds have arrived. Visa holders can have their visas cancelled and be returned to their country of origin if any criminality subsequently emerges.

21/02/2025

BUILDERS CALL FOR WORKERS - EXCLUSIVE - CLARE ARMSTRONG - NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR
Australia needs a skilled migration pathway for construction workers, incentives for employers to take on more apprentices, streamlined red tape and more pressure on states to urgently boost housing supply, the building sector says. To reach the goal of 1.2 million new homes within five years, sweeping reforms are urgently needed to trigger the necessary private investment in construction, Master Builders Australia has warned in a pre-budget submission to the Albanese government.

04/02/2025

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03/02/2025

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01/02/2025

ABC News - "A record number of working holiday-makers flooded Australia in 2024, with 206,187 visa holders in December — up almost 40,000 from the year before. The visa changes correlate with a sharp increase in the number of British arrivals. He said recent visa changes brought about by the UK free trade agreement made the move to Australia more appealing to Brits."

"In changes introduced from July, UK citizens on a working holiday visa are no longer required to work in a regional area, and can stay for three years instead of the two-year maximum granted to other nationalities.

The age limit for eligible UK workers has also risen from 30 to 35."

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-31/working-holidaymaker-visas-employment-travel/104798716

The number of Britons in Australia on working holiday visas is at an all-time high after the eligibility was broadened, but experts warn the relaxing of rules is "discriminatory".

30/01/2025

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21/01/2025

Skills crisis, slowing starts hammer big housing target
By Emily Verdouw - Canberra Times
A deepening skills shortage and plunging housing starts threaten the nation's ambitious target of 1.2 million new homes by 2029.
The Housing Industry Association has flagged a dire need for 83,000 extra workers to meet demand for residential construction, citing challenges in attracting, training and retaining skilled workers.
"Only 50 per cent of people doing a building trade actually complete their course and that's where the emphasis and the focus should be, not about this legislation."

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15/01/2025

13/01/2025

"All Hands on Deck: Construction workforce requirements" HIA’s plan to build the workforce to house all Australians

The National Housing Accord sets an ambitious goal of building 1.2 million homes over the next five years. Reaching this target will require a volume of home building that is around 50 per cent higher than the current level, which is a level of building Australia has never achieved in the past.

Building a greater number of homes will require a greater number of skilled trades workers. This All Hands on Deck report estimates the number of additional workers that will be required across each of the 12 key trades in residential building. In total, it is estimated that the industry will need more than 83,000 additional trades workers across the key home building trades.

These occupations include Carpenter, Electrician,

Plumber, Painter, Bricklayer, Cabinetmaker, Plasterer, Tiler, Concreter, Roof Tiler, Floor Finisher, and Glazier.

Making better use of the skilled migration system

The migration system makes it more difficult for people in trade occupations to migrate to Australia when compared to other occupations. Consequently, many businesses in the building industry do not consider skilled migration to be a viable way to address skill shortages. Census data shows that only 24.2 per cent of workers in the Australian construction industry are migrants, this

ranks 16th out of the Australia’s 19 major industry sectors. The construction industry is well short of the national average of 32 per cent. The finance and insurance services sector has Australia’s largest share of migrant workers at 39.6 per cent.

Data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that there are just 3,644 workers on temporary skill shortage visas currently in Australia working in these key trade occupations. This equates to only 0.8 per cent of the workforce in these trade occupations. This is small in comparison to other industries and only a share of these migrant workers is likely to be working in residential building.

https://hia.com.au/our-industry/newsroom/industry-policy/2025/01/budget-must-address-apprentice-numbers-hia

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09/01/2025

"The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report found 45 per cent of Australian employers favour changes to immigration laws to attract global talent, compared with a much lower global average of 26 per cent.
“Experience is telling employers that finding the right skills, let alone the right amount of labour, is proving incredibly difficult domestically, as the economy goes through a big transition,” said Innes Willox, chief executive of national employer association the Australian Industry Group, which partnered with the WEF on the report."

“It’s harder for Australian employers than in other markets to find the labour that they need. We’re an island continent, we’re not connected like Europe where it’s easier to try to attract labour across markets. The report’s findings are in line with The Australian Financial Review’s annual Chanticleer CEO Poll, which found that the country’s top chief executives want the government to overhaul its skilled migration program."
(c) Australian Financial Review - Michelle Bowes - Wealth Reporter

02/01/2025

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20/12/2024

"Jobs In Demand: Australia's New Skilled Migration List Sparks Mixed Reactions From Industry Groups" (c) International Business Times

The Australian government has released a new list of occupations eligible for temporary skilled migration, sparking mixed reactions from industry groups.

The Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL), published earlier this month, includes 456 jobs across various sectors such as construction, agriculture, cybersecurity, health, and education. Some of the listed occupations included carpenters, bricklayers, psychologists, private tutors, software engineers, bakers, and beauty therapists, reported SBS News.

Other roles included on the CSOL were stonemasons, joiners, painters, floor finishers, and electricians. The list was created based on labor market analysis and consultations by Jobs and Skills Australia.

The government aims to attract skilled migrants to fill roles in industries facing worker shortages, hoping to boost the economy.

"The government is determined to tackle the skills shortage, especially in the construction sector," Immigration Minister Tony Burke stated. "This is an important step to attract qualified workers to help build more homes."

This list will be used for the Core Skills stream of the new Skills in Demand visa, which replaces the Temporary Skill Shortage (subclass 482) visa. It will also apply to the Direct Entry stream of the permanent Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) visa.

Missing roles on the migration list

Master Builders Australia, however, pointed out that key machinery operator roles were missing. The group had criticized a draft list of priority skills earlier this year for not including enough trades, especially as Australia faced a housing shortage.

Restaurant & Catering Australia, the main group for Australia's hospitality industry, also voiced concern about leaving out important hospitality staff from the list.

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14/12/2024

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13/12/2024

Australian Government Department of Home Affairs Immigration & Citizenship

Migration and Temporary visa program quarterly report on processing times (2023-24 Q4) - Visa activities - Visa processing times for the fourth quarter of 2023-24 marginally increased across some of the migration and temporary visa programs. During this period the Department has seen an increase in lodgements across all visa programs, with a recent trend of slowing visa application lodgements. The volume of new visa applications remains high with nearly 9.3 million migration and temporary visa applications lodged in the 2023-24 program year, which represents an 18 per cent increase in lodgements compared to the 2022-23 program year.

Of the 9.3 million applications received in 2023-24, over 2.1 million were received in the fourth quarter (1 April 2024 to 30 June 2024):

o This is 1.6 per cent more than the number of applications lodged in the fourth quarter of the previous year (2022-23).

o Temporary visa programs have seen the strongest growth in application lodgements, up 3.7 per cent in the fourth quarter 2023-24, compared to the fourth quarter the previous year. This included Visitor visa applications increasing by 7 per cent, Working Holiday Maker increasing by 3 per cent, and Temporary Skilled increasing by nearly 54 per cent.

o Permanent Skilled visa application lodgements have however reduced by 34.5 per cent compared to the fourth quarter of the previous year (2022-23). Noting this, the total number of new applications in the previous program year (2022-23) was a high for Permanent Skilled visas.

As at 30 June 2024, there were over 745,000 migration and temporary visa applications on-hand.

o This is 166,000 (or 29 per cent) more temporary and migration visa applications on-hand, compared to 579,000 on-hand applications on 30 June 2023.

o This is 214,000 (or 22 per cent) less temporary and migration visa applications on-hand, compared to 959,000 on-hand applications on 30 June 2022.

o Temporary visa applications on-hand have increased to nearly 337,000 compared to just over 161,000 the same time last year. o Of the over 745,000 on-hand applications, nearly 160,000 are in programs subject to capping and/or queuing. The cap is set annually in a legislative instrument based on Migration Program planning levels.

During the 2023-24 program year the Department finalised 9.1 million temporary and migration visa applications, with over 2.1 million being in the fourth quarter (between 1 April 2024 to 30 June 2024), 0.15 per cent less than in the same period in 2022-23.

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/Visa-subsite/files/migration-temporary-visa-program-quarterly-report-processing-times-2324-q4.pdf

09/12/2024

"This is the first edition of the Occupation Standard Classification for Australia (OSCA). OSCA replaces the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) for use in Australia."

"The Occupation Standard Classification for Australia (OSCA) is a standardised framework for storing, organising and reporting occupation-related information. It has been established by the ABS through a comprehensive review of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) conducted between July 2022 and December 2024. OSCA replaces ANZSCO in Australia."

"The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) is a system used by the Department of Home Affairs to classify and list occupations for various visa programs. This classification helps determine the skill level, qualifications, and experience required for different jobs.

The ANZSCO codes are used in the skilled occupation lists for visas such as:

Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS) visa (subclass 186)
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)
Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)
Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa (subclass 482)
Skills in Demand (SID) Visa
Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491)"



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04/12/2024

"There are 456 occupations that Australia has a skills shortage in, with some pulling in salaries of $200,000. See what the roles are and how much they earn." (c) Nicole Cridland - National News Network

The Australian Government has unveiled a new Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL) to address critical skills shortages in the country’s economy.

WHAT IS THE CSOL?

It is a new targeted job skills list designed to attract skilled migrants who will make a significant contribution to the Australian economy.

The new CSOL will fill positions where Australian workers are unavailable.

Critically, this will include the housing sector to tackle the nation’s housing shortage.

It includes a raft of reforms that will replace outdated, complex and rigid occupation lists in Australia’s temporary skilled visa program.

HOW IS IT BETTER?

The new CSOL has been streamlined as a single consolidated list, informed by labour market analysis and stakeholder consultations by Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA).

Its creation provides access to temporary skilled migration for 456 occupations spanning a

range of industries, including health, education, construction, agriculture and cyber security.

WHY IS THERE A SKILLS SHORTAGE?

There were three key findings that revealed factors that led to significant gaps in a range of skills within the labour market that the CSOL reforms hope to improve.

Examples of the sectors and some jobs within them identified as being in shortage nationally are listed below.

Suitability gap

The occupations below are examples of some of the jobs that attracted enough qualified applicants, but where a skills shortage occurred because a significant number of applicants were not seen as suitable by employers – for example, a lack of relevant work experience and/or employability skills.

*Auditors

*Financial Investment Advisers

*Marketing Specialists

*Architects and Landscape Architects

*Electronics Engineer

*Agricultural, Fisheries and Forestry Scientists

*Multimedia Specialists and Web Developers

*Software and Applications Programmers

*Computer Network Professionals

Retention gap

Shortages occur due to below average rates of retention and low numbers of new applicants per vacancy. The CSOL reforms address better pay and/or working conditions, professional development and clearer career pathways as ways to alleviate this shortage.

Examples of some of the jobs included as creating a skills shortage due to poor retention are listed below.

Construction sector:

*Glaziers

*Plasterers

*Renderers

*Roof Tilers

*Wall and Floor Tilers

Hospitality sector occupations:

*Chefs

*Cooks

*Bakers

*Pastry cooks

*Butchers

*Smallgoods Makers

*Dental Therapists

*Child Carers

Training gap

Skills shortages have occurred as a result of both short and long-term training gaps.

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02/12/2024

The Australian Financial Review Julie Hare Education editor
"Australia’s post-secondary education sector needs to be overhauled as young people flood the job market with worthless degrees while hundreds of occupations that require only vocational qualifications struggle to find applicants for well-paid jobs."
"Australia’s skills tsar Barney Glover says 15 years of government policies designed to encourage young people to enrol in university have tipped the scales too far, leaving graduates without bright futures and vast tracts of industry without the skills they need."
“In the decade to 2021, with both political parties in power, higher education qualifications grew by 67 per cent and vocational qualifications by 25 per cent, with the total population growing by 14 per cent,” said Professor Glover, who is the commissioner for Jobs and Skills Australia, the federal agency tasked with mapping the nation’s skills needs now and into the future.
“It really does put an imbalance into the post-secondary profile. We need to rebalance that to meet the jobs of the future.”
In NSW more than 90 per cent of the 400 occupations on the critical skills shortage list require only vocational qualifications.
tacey Toskas, marketing director and co-owner with her husband John of NICCO, which makes bespoke solid timber windows and doors, knows the difficulty of finding skilled staff.
Before the pandemic, skilled joiners and woodworkers from Ireland and the UK meant they had a constant source of labour. That came crashing to a halt when the borders closed.
While 500 people recently applied for a job as a drafter, mostly people with engineering and architecture degrees, Ms Toskas has found it difficult to recruit not just skilled labour but apprentices – an avenue the company had not previously embraced.
She started doing expos in school halls and is gradually getting word out.
“There is a lack of awareness. It’s partly that mentality from parents that their kids need to go to university, but we have this huge skills shortage in construction. There’s a lucrative, interesting, sustainable future if you think a bit differently,” said Ms Toskas, who now has six apprentices among a staff of 45.
One of them is Rebecca Daley, 24, who heard the call of a trades apprenticeship but not before completing two vocational qualifications in visual arts and starting a university degree in animation.
One of the biggest barriers, he said, was parental expectations: “I’ve just been to the navy site on Garden Island. I asked the apprentices ‘what brought you into it?’ And out of about six, four said their dad was in a trade.”
However, as policy expert Andrew Norton pointed out, most of the growth in universities over the past decade has come from people who would probably have done better financially with a vocational degree.

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29/11/2024

Surveyors in short supply but working visa refusals will force proud regional business to close By Emily Dobson ABC North West Qld
In short: Outback business owner Dale Adamson says he has tried to employ international workers to fill surveyor vacancies but his visa applications have been rejected. Surveying Australia says there is shortage of 2,000 surveyors nationwide and the skills gap is expected to worsen. What's next? Mr Adamson says he will have to close his doors and abandon the region if he cannot fill vacant positions.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/outback-visa-surveyor-denied-critical-skill/104657226


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