AFR Education Editor Julie Hare argues that the ‘crackdown’ on migration will worsen Australia’s chronic skills shortage.
Professor Eric Knight, Macquarie University’s deputy vice-chancellor (people and operations), says politicians’ – and the community’s – growing “intolerance for migration” is adding fuel to the flames of skill shortages as unemployment remains at almost historically low levels.
“One way to address skill shortages is through the migration of people who can do those jobs,” Knight says.
