The Australia PR Visa quota should have been increased according to Professor Peter McDonald the Demography Expert. Scott Morrison the Prime Minister had reduced the annual immigration target to 160,000 in March this year. This was in an attempt to placate voters who were anxious regarding congestion and job security.
The Professor
explained that without Melbourne and
Sydney, Australia would have been a backwater internationally. The yearly
Australia PR Visa quota should have been kept the same at 190,000, he added.
Demography Expert
shared his views at the Infrastructure
Summit of the Australian Financial Review. He said that the immigration
target must not have been reduced.
University of
Melbourne Professor of Demography Peter McDonald said that Australia was
staring at a prospective labour-supply crunch. This was because around 2 million Baby Boomers were retiring
from the Australian workforce.
The quitting
workers will not be replaced by the younger generation because that is not
growing said the Professor. In fact, the
young end is flat and falling as well as individuals are staying longer in
education, he added.
Thus, immigration is the only solution,
explained Peter McDonald. Perhaps, it would have been better if the Australia PR Visa quota remained at 190,000
annually, said McDonald.
The decrease in immigration did not help in any
way to decongest Melbourne and Sydney said the Professor of Demography.
Perhaps, 10,000 of the immigration cut might have gone through these twin
cities. However, the labour demand in
these cities is very high and will remain so, added Peter McDonald. They
will find the needed workers from other places and the first place that they
will obtain them is from Adelaide, he explained.
Several of them
from the Baby Boom generation were also employed in low-skilled jobs said the
Professor. These were also not being filled by the immigrants. Thus, we will also have a scarcity of low-skilled
workers, explained McDonald. I am not really sure what Australia will do
about this, he said, as quoted by the AFR.
Australia has a
nation has transformed significantly after the mining boom ended, said Peter
McDonald. Workers started to flock Melbourne and Sydney in place of Brisbane
and Perth. However, these big cities are the future, said McDonald. You need these dramatic places for attracting
overseas interest, he explained.
Romilly Madew Chief Executive of Infrastructure
Australia said that infrastructure projects must be
carefully planned. This is to ensure that they remain aligned with the
population growth in Australia to keep the cities liveable, said Madew.
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