Brickworks CEO Lindsay Partridge claims labour shortages are holding the building industry back, and has called on the federal government to review migration settings to alleviate said shortages.
Partridge said a lack of construction workers – including bricklayers and roof tilers – will threaten the country’s capacity to build new homes and ease the housing shortage.
“I think both shortages (trades for his plants and construction workers) needs the government to review its immigration policies, there is no use importing IT people and nurses and doctors if they have got nowhere to live”.
