More Skilled Immigrants Required in Australia!

A most important project in Australia might cause a major demand for foreign skilled migrants, particularly the foreign trained engineers. The country is gearing up for the building of the National Broadband Network. This enormous project is expected to raise the present demand for more visa applications to the country.

In accordance with Graham Bradley, the President for Business Council, there is previously a shortage of skills in the mining industry in the country. It is clear that the present demand would just rise as this project continues to growth. It might basis a problem as the pace of these new projects continues to expedite. This speeding up is specially being witnessed in Queensland and Western Australia.

It has been recommended by Bradley that making the immigration rules a bit suppler, particularly for 457 visas which is meant for the skilled migrants. This visa permits the employers in Australia to sponsor overseas skilled migrants.

On the other hand, it has been argued by Chris Bowen, the Immigration Minister for Australia there is no exact limits about the number of engineers to be sponsored under this visa. More so, the program is working as preferred. Together, Chris Evans, the Employment Minister is also working on a program for training of domestic workers to provide to the skill shortages in the nation.

The over is a Critical Skills Investment fund catering to about AUS$200 million. The major objective of this program is to create 39,000 new training places. Likewise, the National Broadband Network caters to another $35.7 billion. The major aspect of this project is to offer high-speed Internet to about 93 percent of the Australian homes. In the past of Australia, this is the main infrastructure project.