Australia’s migration programme has failed to deliver what it promises. It brings in relatively few genuinely skilled workers, while favouring family migration.
Australia’s permanent migration system is incoherent, inefficient and in parts unlawful.
It delivers few new skilled workers while being clogged with family visas that, by law, should not be capped at all.
Meanwhile, temporary migrants—students, graduates and working holiday makers—carry the real weight of supplying skilled labour, yet are undervalued.
However, the migration programme is simultaneously presented to the public as both “capped” and “demand-driven”—a contradiction that undermines its credibility.
