http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3784318
ource: Reuters
16 Mar 2009, 0456 hrs IST, REUTERS
CANBERRA: Australia will cut immigration for the first time in a
decade, with recession looming and unemployment rising sharply,
Immigration
Minister Chris Evans said on Monday. "We're going to cut it from
133,500 to 115,000, so that's about a 14 per cent cut," Evans told
state radio.
"We don't want people coming in who are going to compete with
Australians for limited jobs."
Australia's jobless rate spiked to 5.2 percent from 4.8 percent last
month with the biggest impact felt by full-time workers. The centre-
left government expects unemployment to reach 7 percent by mid-2010,
although some economists fear it could go as high as 10 percent.
Evans, who removed hairdressers and cooks off Australia's critical
occupation shortage list at Christmas, said he was now adding foreign
bricklayers, plumbers, carpenters and electricians from the list that
guides skilled migration intake. Further cuts were likely in the May
12 budget, local media said, leaving only health occupations,
engineering and information technology skills as needed skills.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Australia_to_cut_imm...
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