"No the unions oppose bringing in some migrant workers in some areas of work because they rather business train locals and unions don't want competition from lower paid workers on temp visas."
"The head of Master Builders Australia, Denita Wawn, said those numbers were impossible in the current circumstances.
She argued more needed to be done to attract people to the industry over the long term, especially women.
And in the short term, Wawn said Australia should look overseas."
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Perhaps because it's tradies, the need is for skilled migrants that do not need a lot of times to come up too speed (depending upon English proficiency?
