Kate Chaney (Curtin, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

This is a question for the Minister for Home Affairs. To respond to the housing crisis, we need more construction workers and tradies to build more homes, but the building industry recruited only half of the additional workers it needed in the first half of this year. The government has proposed a fast-tracked specialist skills pathway for skilled migrants. Given this housing crisis, why have you specifically excluded construction workers?

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