The system isn’t working well – and among the biggest losers are state governments themselves.
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Defining skill shortage by lists of occupations is inflexible for a rapidly changing labour market. Australia needs a different approach to organise its temporary skilled migration programs.
Australia has traditionally only offered permanent residence to skilled migrants. That might have to change, as countries like Japan are already showing.
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Adelaide
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Deputy Program Director (Migration), Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Population Geography, University of Adelaide
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Deputy Program Director, Migration and Labour Markets, Grattan Institute
