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Morrison plans recovery phase, migration critical – The Australian Financial Review
The Prime Minister has nominated clean affordable energy, a skilled and scaled-up workforce and digital advance as key to the post-pandemic economic recovery.
Building the scale, capacity and skills of our workforce is the single greatest economic challenge we face, he will say.
With 54,000 jobs available now in regional Australia and employers unable to fill them, Mr Morrison will note that mutual obligation will not be enough to get people to do the jobs that could not be filled during the pandemic, let alone meet growing areas of need.
He suggests that once migration resumes, it will be adjusted to meet the needs in areas of burgeoning demand such…
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