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Commerce graduate Ash Bryan hated multistage interviews for marketing roles – and took up a refrigeration apprenticeship instead.

‘You can earn a decent amount’: Ash has a commerce degree. But now he’s a tradie

Australia is in desperate need of tens of thousands of tradies over the next five years. Fixing the shortage all begins with tackling job snobbery.

  • Jenna Price

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A skills shortage? Many of the skilled workers the nation needs are already living here.

620,000 workers who could solve our skills crisis are hiding in plain sight

Hundreds of thousands of overseas-trained workers living in Australia have the skills we desperately need. We just need to activate them.

  • Melinda Cilento and Violet Roumeliotis
Workers pulling together pre-fabricated building parts.

Hopes pinned on pre-fab homes as building pipeline hits $213 billion

A blowout in construction costs since the pandemic continues to weigh on building costs. The government hopes pre-fab homes might ease price pressures.

  • Shane Wright and David Crowe
Judy McMahon, the owner of Catalina Restaurant in Rose Bay, relies on foreign hospitality students.

‘Australians don’t want to do the work’: Top restaurants slam migration crackdown

Judy McMahon, owner of Rose Bay harbourside restaurant Catalina, said more than half of her employees were on visas.

  • Daniella White
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Sussan Ley and Michael Sukkar have both claimed Labor are allowing yoga teachers to enter Australia while denying entry to tradies.

Coalition stretches facts in yoga workers housing row

A Coalition claim about an influx of foreign yoga teachers has been debunked by official figures.

  • David Crowe
The building industry faces a chronic shortage of workers in coming years.

Decade-long shortfall of tradies tipped to undermine nation’s housing push

Build Skills Australia warns the government’s ambitious housing target of 1.2 million homes over five years faces major challenges.

  • Olivia Ireland
Aged care.

‘A knife fight for staff’: Nurse shortage threatens aged care fix

There could be a shortage of 13,000 nurses in the aged care sector by 2030. The national nursing federation says the industry has to do more to attract and retain nurses.

  • David Crowe
Fatin Alrawi has not been able to use her engineering qualifications since migrating to Australia.

The fixable problem that would boost wages and deliver $9b extra for economy

About 44 per cent of permanent migrants, including Fatin Alrawi, are working below their qualification level. The economic cost is huge.

  • Matt Wade

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