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Highly skilled migrants needed for clean, green and high-tech Australia.
For those who see the remarkable booming economy of australia as providing lots of opportunity for sweaty trades people, working in mines and on vast infrastructure projects … well, you’re right, but only in part. Throughout its history Australia has a long record of scientific and industrial innovation, from the stump-jump plough, to the rotary clothesline and lawnmower, to penicillin, to the ‘black box recorder’ in aircraft, to the ‘metal storm’ weapon system, to the cochlea ear implant and many other inventions and research achievements. Thus, it urgently needs and provides opportunity for scientists, technicians, medical researchers and many other skilled professionals in associated fields.
Skilled Brits queueing up for Australian visas.
Historically, it’s a simple fact that millions of Brits have moved to Australia over the past 200 years or so. And why not? It was the British Crown that established the first European settlement in what eventually became Australia, by dumping several shiploads of convicts and their guards near Sydney Harbour in 1788. From that inauspicious beginning, a nation grew which is today one of the healthiest economies in the OECD. Because it’s a small country (in population) and because it’s far distant from Europe, Australia doesn’t attract much attention in the usual run of things.
What kind of skilled migrant does Australia really need?
People who don’t live there often have a positive but narrow view of Australia: they see it as a land where the sun always shines and the natural resources never run out. Both these things are true in their ways, but to see the country simply as a land of prosperous bronzed Aussies, muscles rippling from honest hard work is to barely scratch the surface of this complex and increasingly technological society.
Australia to maintain record immigration levels.
The Australian Federal Government is set to maintain record high immigration levels, although some groups express concern about the impact on young job seekers and urban congestion.
Australia set to become ‘Middle East of gas’.
Once again, scrutiny falls on Australia’s severe skilled worker shortage and developments surge ahead in infrastructure projects and in resource industry developments. Once again, it is patently obvious that this major and continuing challenge will be met significantly, by skilled people who bring those skills from their homelands to Australia. And with Australia poised to become “the Middle East of gas”, the problem/opportunity remains in sharp focus. As Asia’s rapidly growing economies queue up to buy its vast reserves in liquid form. the government has approved the massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off Western Australia, which Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said would cost 50 billion dollars (41 billion US) to build and would generate 6,000 jobs.
Construction boost to Oz GDP intensifies need for skilled immigrants.
Government figures show that Australian construction work spending was much stronger than expected in the last quarter as investment on infrastructure projects jumped, boding well for growth in the economy as a whole.
Oz population boom boosts economy.
Australia is in the middle of a population boom that played a major part in saving it from a global recession and promises to fuel economic growth for years to come.
Why is Australia’s economy still growing, as the UK’s dips deeper into recession?
There are three main reasons Australia’s economy, looks like it will show growth, not contraction, this year. These reasons are:
Don’t worry, be happy Downunder!
It’s a tough world. Always has been; probably always will be. And yet, amid the difficulties and myriad challenges thrown up by our world, there are a few oases of happiness as perceived by and aspired to by people throughout the world.
Australia prepares to fine tune immigration policy.
Australia’s federal government is set to closely examine its immigration policy with a view of formulating a 5 year plus ‘master plan’ that addresses all aspects of the subject. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said that cabinet had approved the development of a five to 10-year plan that would consider the types of migrants that Australia needed, where they should settle, and the extra requirements in housing, transport, water and other resources to accommodate more people.