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Australia is relaxing visa rules to ease unprecedented labour shortage

AB News Wire | 31/08/2022 08:44 AM | Click to read full article

Australia has the second most severe labour and skills shortage in the world, second only to Canada, according to the OECD. Data released in July by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that there were as many job vacancies as unemployed people in the country.

In a bid to correct this, and help ease the labour shortage, Australia has increased the quotas for several skilled visa categories.

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