Just been watching 7:30 - and Leigh Sales reporting on the so called national "skills shortages". She goes for a wander around Roma in Queensland (popn 6,763) and then proceeds to tell us how this place is representative of the jobs situation across the rest of the nation. Beg pardon?
She has been badly misled.
The jobs situation in Roma and a few other little places around the nation is *nothing like* the real national jobs situation. If she really wants to be properly informed then she should travel a bit more and visit all the little towns across all the states - she might even want to visit a few of the big ones and perhaps even a couple of our cities ;-)
And if she did that then she would find that a completely different jobs situation actually exists - not one where the main characteristic is a "skills shortage". And in between these visits she might want to look at and understand the national job numbers as collected, analysed and published by the ABS - because they have a different view. And if she really wants to be informed then she might want to seek out and speak with some of the people who really understand this issue.
Forgive my cynicism but how did she end up in Roma and why did this story get a Guernsey on 7:30? Wouldn't be anything to do with vested interests pushing that nasty little 457 visa scam - would it?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment