Business
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…
-
Noosa News4 hours agoWoman dead and man rushed to hospital with gunshot wound following crash near Aussie World on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast
-
Noosa News11 hours agoFarmer Fred Perry’s 30-year conservation project creates bird haven after years of ‘bashing and burning’
-
General10 hours agoBoy dies after being trapped between rocks off NSW beach
-
General23 hours agoUkraine says Russia has ramped up attacks despite ‘Easter truce’