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Ce weekend j'ai trouvé ce petite article intéressant dans "The Courrier" pour ceux qui veulent faire le grand pas et travailler en Australie...

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The Courier, the 13th May 2006

“The state we’re in” with Angela Carey

Skilled migrants help fill void

We all know the frustation of trying to get a “tradie” to come and fix a minor household problem.

Sometimes, it’s nigh on possible.

For workers in Ballarat who have such in-demand skills, that’s good for business.

But for businesses who rely on the skills and experience of their employees for their successes, it can be a pain in the neck.

For big business, in particular, accessing skilled workers has become a major issue, particularly in regional Australia.

According to the Federal Government, Australia will experience skills shortages for at least the next 30 years.

And while nobody has said so specifically, we can expect Ballarat will continue to experience that ongoing pinch as well.

Pleasingly, at a local level, we have programs in place to help out, at least in the short term.

Ballarat’s Skilled Migration program has been running for little more than a year and in that time has helped more than 40 migrants settle into new lives here in Ballarat. (That’s not the sum total of skilled migration to Ballarat. Not all skilled migrants who arrive in Ballarat access that program.)

The City’s own research shows we are sadly lacking skilled workers in any number of areas – tradesmen (of all varieties), administrative personnel, medical staff, accountants, bricklayers, chefs, painters, dental staff, hairdressers and mechanics are all in short supply.

Truck drivers, hospitality staff, electricians and boilermakers are also difficult to find.

Our biggest employer of pharmacists, UFS Dispensaries, has had to import expertise in order to service its growing business.

The issue of skilled migration generates much debate across the nation.
“They’re taking Aussie jobs,” cry the critics.

Not necessarily so. Many businesses will tell you that they have tried to employ local skilled labour without success.

Ballarat firm Maxitrans has been a keen supporter of skilled migration. It has employed 25 Chinese workers to cover what it says is a shortage of welding expertise in Australia.

It has come under some criticism recently, however, for laying off 39 of its causal workers.

The casual workers, it says, were the victims of a small market downturn and their sackings were not related to the arrival of the Chinese workers.
Ballarat MP Catherine King has been a loud critic of the Federal Government’s skilled migration program – not because she’s anti-migration (in fact, she’s one of the biggest supporters of multiculturalism in Ballarat).

She argues that using skilled migration is a cop out for not putting more money into TAFE programs.

“(The government) has imported 270,000 extra permanent skilled migrants at the same time it has turned 300,000 Australians away from TAFE,” she said.

If we are to fix our skills shortage into the future, then it is important that we invest money in programs that give young people the opportunity to move into careers which count.

No doubt Maxitrans would have preferred to use local labour (and, indeed, had tried to source it). Simply training the unskilled casual workers, however, would not have solved the company’s immediate problems.

The shortage is not something which came about overnight, and it is not something which will be fixed overnight.

What skilled migrants are doing is helping fill a void until we can get ourselves back into the position of having sufficient locally grown and trained labour.

For that, we should owe them a great debt of thanks.


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