Local training is the best long-term solution to Australia's skills shortages – not increased migration
- Written by Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University

In mid October, the New South Wales government’s top beaureacrats urged new Premier Dominic Perrottet to push for “an aggressive resumption of immigration levels” to spur post-pandemic economic recovery.
Industry seized on this as the answer to skills shortages that have resulted from Australia’s border closures....