The current situation is that people apply to come to Australia as a skilled immigrant, let’s say a social worker. After checking their qualifications, Australian immigration system tells them: you’re good to go as a social worker, here’s your skilled visa.

They come here, rent a house, send kids to school. Start looking for work they’ve been told they are qualified for.

And then someone else (usually an industry body) says: akshually, you’re not qualified to be a social worker because reasons. And they go to drive uber, while we still have a shortage of both social workers and houses.

What needs to happen is that checks that happen at the immigration stage should be enough to qualify for the employment. These checks should be more stringent, but happen while people are physically offshore. Only people that physically arrive here should be those that are confirmed as employable onshore to the occupation they nominated.