News article - Skilled migrants in high demand, but roadblocks may stymie efforts to retain talent in Australia
Australia is attempting to attract skilled migrants from countries like India to address economy-wide skills shortages. However, many are leaving after failing to realise their dreams.
Some migrants 7.30 spoke to cited racism, inability to find a job in their own field and a strict parental reunion policy as some of the reasons — and ADI Director Professor Mansouri agrees:
For roughly the same period, 2021, for Australia, we had 145,000 new migrants. Germany, in particular, attracted 1.3 million new migrants … and the UK more than 600,000 migrants