An increase in skilled migration, more support for training and lifting workforce participation should be top of Australia’s action plan, said CA ANZ chief executive Ainslie van Onselen.
Although migration was not a “silver bullet” for the skills drought, it was the only answer in the short term, she said.
“That’s why we support urgently resourcing and addressing the skilled visa processing backlog, maintaining the preference for skilled migrants in the migration program, and more specifically the migration of accounting and finance professionals, who play such an important role in supporting post-pandemic growth,” Ms van Onselen said.
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