Oh my .... come on you lot.. get with the program!

Immigration programs are about votes.

LNP "Business" Migration.

ALP "Skilled" migration.

GREENS "Compassionate" migration.

On the issue of 'LNG project skills' are globally mobile etc.. says nothing about the need for allowing "immigration" but everything about temporary work visa's, because if they come here for a project duration, they will be somewhere else when it's finished. Or..they will join dole queues.

Then again, we could always train our own people.. let them go to projects off shore and send some biccies back to OUR treasury rather than someone elses.

The other main attraction with importing skills is that most highly skilled Aussies are reluctant to move out of the cities. On one site I tried to recruit graduates, paying significantly above average and offering an fantastic training program, and could not get a young electrical engineer for more than a year, and even then he was an immigrant.

Overseas engineers are prepared to work where ever is required.

The article is a vast over simplification.