Canberra, Australia
Australia this week announced it needed 20,000 skilled immigrants to fill labor shortages. In the country’s largest foreign recruitment campaign since the 1960s, the government will set up promotional expos in India and across Europe. “The most crucially short are engineering occupations and a number of related trade occupations such as welders,” said Abul Rizvi, the government’s immigration spokesman. Australia is known for being particularly tough on illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, who are generally locked away in bleak, overcrowded detention centers before being deported.
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