The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has supported the government's announcement of a newly released migration review, calling it a 'good change' after more than a decade of silence.
Former senior public servant Martin Parkinson released the extensive 200-page review, which highlighted the shift of Australia’s migration landscape from long-term residency to temporary worker substitutions for employer-reported skill shortages.
ACTU President Michelle O'Neill told Sky News Australia the government's announcement of the migration review was"a good shift". Picture: Sky News Australia. “We’ve got a proud history in Australia of permanent migration and instead we’ve seen this shift to short term bonded labour where people are tied to one employer and they can’t leave if anything goes wrong,” she said.“We’ve just neglected thinking about what’s in our country’s interests and [the system] is not in anybody’s interest.”
She also shone light on how immigrants are a “strength” making Australia “a great multicultural country” but are faced with a lack of “genuine opportunities” to build a life and become part of the society due to the flawed “insecure nature” of short-term labour.
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