Everyone comes around to the correct view eventually.

Love the chugger

Trade union membership, August 2024 Trade union membership by employment and socio-demographic characteristics such as full-time/part-time, age, industry, occupation, education, earnings

Trade union density increased to 13.1% in 2024 from 12.5% in 2022. Overall, 1.6 million people are Australian trade union members in their main job www.abs.gov.au/statistics/l... #ausunions #auspol

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Fair enough that’s your opinion. But you said they were not eligible and that’s not true. There were about 10,000 construction related skilled visas issued in 2023-24 across the major categories.

The main difference between the two streams is the time taken to process visa applications (days vs weeks) and the whether the occupation is subject to the eligibility process conducted by Jobs and Skills Australia. But at the end of the day, they will get the same visa.

Yes, a new system is being introduced shortly. Trades are not included for the high wage priority stream. However the is another stream, where eligible jobs can be sponsored as long as the market salary is above $73,510. At the moment, trades are included on that list.

They are on the skills shortage list immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/workin... for all the major visa categories

No. Even the best newspaper in the world can get it wrong.

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Not to be one of those people, but I think some of these were for Royal assent as opposed to in the parliament. Eg Boxing Day 1987

Thanks Michael, that is a really useful list. Hope you’re well.

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The Triangle still feels empty, we have so, so much room in which to build more national institutions. The Ngurra precinct was going to do that, but alas that's going to Acton now.

(Currently, about 2x the land in the main area of the Triangle is used for surface car parking vs buildings...)

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