Migrants taking jobs from Aussies: MP

March 2, 2010 by admin

(SMH) Temporary skilled migrants make up less than one per cent of the total labour market but constituted about 30 per cent of employment growth in Australia during the previous financial year. [..] ..Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson said using 457 temporary migrant visa holders to fill labour shortages meant young Australians were missing out on employment. "This approach of saying: 'Let's not worry about training our own and bring in 457 visas' is very short-sighted," he told AAP. "We ought to be training our own geologists, metallurgists, mining engineers and the like." read more

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