ඕස්ට්රේලියාවේ ආර්ථිය නැංවීමට ඉදිරි වසර 5 ඇතුලත මිලියන 2ක අලුත් සංක්රමණිකින් අත්යවශ්ය බව අලුතින් පත්වූ නිව් සවුත් වේල්ස් ප්රාන්ත මහ ඇමති වරයා පවසයි. දෙවන ලෝක යුද සමයේ වූ තරම් විශාල පිරිසක් ඕස්ට්රේලියාවට ගෙන්වා ගැනීමේ අවශ්යතාවක් නැවතත් ඇතිවී ඇතිබව ඒ මහතා පවසයි.
Australia needs ‘explosive’ surge of 2 million migrants
Australia needs an explosive post-World War II-style immigration surge that could bring in 2 million people over five years to rebuild the economy and address worsening labour shortages, according to NSW government advice to new Premier Dominic Perrottet.
Top bureaucrats last week urged Mr Perrottet to seize the national leadership initiative by pushing a “national dialogue on an aggressive resumption of immigration levels as a key means of economic recovery and post-pandemic growth”.
“An ambitious national immigration plan similar to Australia’s post-World War II approach would ensure Australia would benefit from skills, investment and population growth,” Mr Perrottet was told in the advice, which was seen by The Australian Financial Review.
The top-secret, politically sensitive document was prepared by the NSW government’s top mandarins as part of an incoming premier’s brief put together by the Department of Premier and Cabinet. It is understood the advice was delivered to his desk when he took up the job last week.
In a sign the new Premier is taking the advice seriously, Mr Perrottet on Monday said the borders need to be opened up amid a “general labour” shortage to ensure a healthy economic recovery.
“If we lose this opportunity, those skilled migrants will go to other countries,” he said. “We won’t get those engineers, those accountants, they’ll commit to other projects.”
Mr Perrottet is pushing to end NSW’s 14-day hotel quarantine system and replace it with a shorter period of home-based isolation, and is also revisiting inbound passenger caps.
“We need to get away from that formal beds quarantine system and to something that’s more suitable to bring people in and out of this country on a more fluid basis.
“I think by next year we’ll see a very different sort of immigration policy, and I hope we’ll start to see more people coming in and filling those jobs.”
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