The proposed Core Skills Occupations List unnecessarily restricts temporary skilled visas to a subset of all highly-skilled, high-wage occupations.
The list should instead include all skill level 1, 2, and 3 occupations, expanding the range of jobs eligible for employer sponsorship and boosting the pool of highly-skilled applicants for permanent skilled visas.
Brendan Coates
Former Housing and Economic Security Program Director
Brendan Coates was the Housing and Economic Security Program Director at Grattan Institute, where he leads Grattan’s work on housing, retirement incomes and superannuation.