Business
Business SA has appointed migration expert Sherrie Gaskin to advise and advocate on behalf of firms that are struggling to attract skilled workers.
Opinion
The Government’s own population projections paint a grim picture – and could have a profound effect on the way we’re governed, writes Tom Richardson.
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Labor weighed in on migration, the Premier was conspicuously absent and one of his ministers lurched from crisis to disaster. But, writes Tom Richardson, it was the Murdoch media that stole the spotlight for the wrong reasons in an eventful week in politics.
South Australia’s outgoing minister responsible for population hopes new figures showing a long-awaited decline in young people leaving the state are a sign SA has “turned the corner” – but a new plan to boost local migrant numbers has drawn the ire of a former Immigration supremo.
South Australian employers are more likely than their interstate counterparts to choose staff through personal networks rather than by advertising positions, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Regulations forcing South Australian employers to pay eastern states-equivalent wages to migrants and preventing many international students from working here should be scrapped, the migration industry’s peak body says.
Melania Trump’s visit to a Texas shelter housing migrant children separated from their parents has been overshadowed by a jacket she wore with the words: “I really don’t care, do u?” scrawled in white brush strokes on the back.
