Highly skilled migrants that have been waiting months for visas in areas like cybersecurity and science research will have an outcome within a week under the federal government’s ambitious overhaul of the migration system announced on Monday.
The fast-tracking of highly paid workers with in demand skills also recognises these migrants meet a “national need” and help build sovereign capability rather than just filling a labour market gap, in what the Albanese government is billing as a greater alignment of the system with national interests like lifting productivity.
The new pathways are aimed at taking advantage of global shifts like net zero and the digital economy, and comes as the current “unsustainable” record high migration numbers are being lowered to regular levels of 250,000 people annually.
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