[LINK] immigration of skilled workers

[Antony Barry]

On 13/06/2007, at 5:47 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:

>> The Howard Government has made several changes to make it easier  
>> for overseas students to stay on after they graduate. And then, of  
>> course, there are the 80,000 people in Australia on working  
>> holidays at any time.
> ...

>> The skills possessed by these permanent migrants tend to be in the  
>> computing, medical and engineering fields, as well as a range of  
>> trades. So these people are a lot more highly trained than the  
>> average in our workforce.


What's not in these quotes is that a large part of these skilled  
people are from developing countries. We are draining talent and  
skills from the poorer areas of the world.

Tony

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