Press Release Summary: The industrialised world is about to enter a period of intense competition for skilled labour with many countries desperate for skilled tradespeople and professionals.
Press Release Body: Australia is moving into an international war for talent where it will see fierce competition on a nation-to-nation basis to recruit and retain the best talent from Generation Y. In fact, many countries are already emulating Australia's 'cherry-picking' immigration techniques, such as the Temporary Business (Long Stay) 457 visa. In fact, since World War 2, Australia has been a world leader in developing and executing international recruitment of new citizens. Stimulated by the fervent desire to build an enviable nation, a succession of immigration programs has been very successful. But, at the beginning of the 21st century, Australia needs thousands of people a year for many years, to sustain its remarkable resources boom. The message is simple: No workers, no future. However, countries such as Japan, China, the US, Britain and other Western European economies all have fewer people of working age than their economies need. What is emerging is an international skills market competitive to an extent the world has never before seen. But is it just a matter of dueling paychecks?
Certainly, straight out rewards for work may spiral. That's what supply and demand is all about. So does Australia have a competitive edge? If so, it must emanate from the unarguable fact that people want to live there. The whole country enjoys a prosperity, safety and security that most lands cannot match, and many can only dream about. Not to mention the famous laid back Aussie lifestyle.
Then, Australia is far away from almost everywhere else. In some ways, this has disadvantages. But in this world of turmoil and strife, of falling bombs and IEDs, distance has its attractions.
Furthermore, the endless variety of climatic zones, the affordability of Australian housing compared with the US, UK and Europe, the freedom to move around the vast Australian nation and to change jobs at will, are attractions that few countries could match. Then, if a migrant attains permanent residence, Australia has one of the world's best 'family reunion' migration programs.
Even Australian cities get a big tick from the international experts. In the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey of 130 global cities, Melbourne retained its position as best city in the world to call home (equal with Vancouver and Vienna), narrowly beating out four other Australian State capitals. Swedish capital Stockholm rated 13, Auckland and Honolulu rated 19, London 45, Paris 28, New York and Dublin 51 and Beijing 75.
So possibly pay-packet size isn't all-important. If individual liberty and the pursuit of happiness count for anything, Australia must be in the leading bunch, if not at the head of the pack.
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2012
