This report highlights the urgent skills gaps and shortages faced by organisations and the strategies to address them. It aims to serve as a resource for understanding skills requirements and provides actionable insights for building a future-ready workforce.

Migration has shaped Australia’s diverse, highly educated, and cohesive society, and has contributed greatly to our national prosperity. This report highlights how that points-tested visa system is not working as well as it should, arguing that the points test does not sufficiently reward the most-skilled applicants.

This edition of the Treasury Round Up is on Australia’s labour market. It continues analysis started in the 2023 Employment White Paper, Working Future. The report explores how barriers in Australia’s labour market can prevent people and the economy from reaching their full potential.

The authors of this report argue that to successfully undertake its mandate, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand will need to take a view on the current and future effects of people flows into and out of the country.

This report focuses on how to improve the employment outcomes of migrants who are already in the country. It examines the causes of poor labour market outcomes for migrants, in particular language proficiency, poor recognition of qualifications, and discrimination.