Changing Politics And Australian Immigration

Migrant workers, Permanent residency, and the Immigration Lawyer

The incumbent Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has made a pledge to create 1.3 million jobs in the country over the next 5 years. A similar promise has been made before by previous Liberal Party leaders. But this is not grounds for mockery. When the promise of 1 million jobs over 5 years was made by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott the plan actually worked; there really were a million new jobs created between 2013 and 2018. A similar promise in 2019 quite probably would have been equally successful, except the pandemic held us back.

The pandemic is now a situation we are largely recovering from. This is reflected in the employment statistics. We presently have a mere 4% jobless rate. Unemployment is at the lowest point in 14 years. People are back at work, and this helps the economic recovery.

These two figures, low unemployment and a promise of 1.3 million new jobs pose a simple question – if most people in the country are already working then who will be doing the 1.3 million new jobs? The answer mostly lies in immigration. The new jobs will bring more people into the country.

The figures for unemployment were apparently inaccurate over the past few weeks, at least when quoted by the Leader of the Labour Party. But Labour will make immigration a part of their policy for the election on May 21st. They seek to encourage and increase permanent residency for foreign workers and decrease the foreign workers on short-term visas. Simply, there will be more foreign workers, and they will be encouraged to stay for further work, rather than leave after a year or two when the temp job is over.

Prior to the pandemic, we had the second highest number of temp migrant workers in the world, behind only the US. This was not and is still not considered ideal. As Australian businesses want more workers to help get their operations back to healthy functioning so many jobs will exist for immigrants who will then be eligible to become permanent residents.

Immigration Lawyer

There are employment opportunities in Australia for migrants as the country recovers from Covid. Often they are eligible for permanent residency.

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