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http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3716833.htm
Government undecided on 457 intake
MARK COLVIN: Three weeks after it started criticising the temporary foreign worker visa scheme, the Government still can't say what the size of the program should be.
Last year the Government issued 125,000 457 visas, a record high.
The Prime Minister made further efforts yesterday to build a case, suggesting a problem with excessive 457 visas in the technology sector.
The Australian Industry Group says the facts show an acute shortage, with numbers of Australian students and graduates falling by almost half in the past decade.
The Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor spoke to Alexandra Kirk.
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: I'm not picking on one sector. You have to look at sectors and you have to look at the occupations in those sectors.
The issue here though, most importantly, is you must invest in local workers and local young people to attend to our longer term skills shortages than just open up 457s, which is what the Opposition is promising, which will create an underclass in this country.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: If you go to the information technology sector, the Australian Industry Group says it's baffling the criticism the Prime Minster has made, considering what the data shows and that is that there's an acute shortage. So what is going on do you think?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Well I haven't seen the data. Every stakeholder has, I guess, a perspective from their own self-interest, and I don't mean that disrespectfully, but I haven't seen the data.
The information I've received is from the department that shows areas where there have been significant spikes in 457 applications and those that have been granted.
The evidence suggests it's not being used in every situation legitimately. There are significant rorts.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: What do you think is a reasonable number of 457 visa skilled, temporary immigrants?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Look, there is not a set figure because this scheme quite rightly should be demand-driven. So it should fall and it should rise, but what has happened is...
ALEXANDRA KIRK: But you say that there are too many.
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Yes, there's too many, but it should fall and rise based on the demand. It should not be a set number because the market expands and contracts.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Well why not say rather than a generic campaign against them, saying that they're being rorted, why not apply caps to the various professions and in that way regain some control of the program?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: That's not the way you fix anything. What you do is you say demonstrate the shortage need in a given occupation in a given area and we will provide you with the opportunity to open up a temporary skilled worker.
But if you don't show any capacity to employ locals, train locals, or demonstrate the shortage, then the scheme is being misused.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Isn't that the Government's fault if it's being misused? That you haven't been managing it properly?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: To the contrary. We came into government, it was out of control. We responded by legislation in 2009. My predecessor identified these issues and recommended to government these reforms.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: If you crack down on the scheme as you say that you are going to, how many temporary skilled immigrants would you say are going to be coming into Australia this year?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Well, I can't precisely mention a figure because firstly, the scheme is demand-driven, so depending on the nature of the economy. What I'm saying though is that if we get this right, and we just ensure that there is an obligation for employers to look to employ locals when they are available, look to train their local workforce, and demonstrate a genuine need, then the scheme will work perfectly well.
It did not work that well under Howard. We've attended to some of the problems. These are just other reforms recognised by the department, presented to my predecessor. I announce them because we're going to get rid of the rorts.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: But you don't know the extent to which the system is being rorted?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Well, that's - no, obviously the macro evidence is very clear, but what we don't have is a precise figure.
But if we get the conditions right and make sure the provisions are enforceable, we will actually remove those problems.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: And whatever number you come up with you say will be okay?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: No, the number itself is not the issue because it will go up and down with the fluctuations of the economy.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: Except that you're concerned about the large number currently coming into the country.
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Because it's far outstripping total employment growth and skill demand in certain areas. Immigration helped build this country, but we won't allow rorts of a temporary scheme.
ALEXANDRA KIRK: How long do you say it'll take before you crack down on these rorts?
BRENDAN O'CONNOR: Well, we're going to look at the vehicles we use, but certainly I'm looking at administrative, regulatory and legislative changes that will be needed. I am going through the manner in which we do that right now, but the reforms themselves have been identified. We're going to enact them as soon as we possibly can.
MARK COLVIN: The Immigration Minister Brendan O'Connor speaking to Alexandra Kirk. |
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