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Australia will have to accept tens of thousands of unskilled migrants to save its smaller Pacific island neighbours from economic ruin, a report commissioned by the Federal Government has found.
The report argues that the plight of the island nations has become so dire that urgent remedies are necessary to keep them viable.
Australia recently updated its Migration Occupation in Demand List (MODL). The MODL is a list of occupations and specialisations that are facing an ongoing national shortage.The latest MODL review has added a number of specialist computing occupations.
The IT specialisations that have recently been added include:
From the small town of Toowoomba near Australia's Gold Coast, Dennis Davey is searching the world for people to work in his 200-person engineering company. The Los Angeles Times reports.He has snared 15 workers from South Africa and 15 more from China. Some of the South Africans have already been poached away by the town's mining companies, so if the latest batch of Chinese works out, Davey says, he will bring over at least 50 more.
As has been reported on workpermit.com numerous times, Australia is currently scouring the world for skilled immigrants. The trend is likely to continue, as an increasing number of skilled workers is leaving Australia, continuing the country's brain drain.
Increasing skilled immigration will create a more powerful economy in Australia and make people richer on average, the Government's leading agency for economic analysis says. In a report entitled Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth, the Productivity Commission says much of the new wealth will be received by the migrants themselves.