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According to the available reports, the president of an Australian national rural federation has urged Canberra to increase the total number of the 457 skilled admission permits to be proffered to the much sought after farm workers. The said course of action is perfectly in sync with the groundwork of the agricultural domain to increase its production by as much as 100%. The mining business had earlier harnessed the controversial skilled admission permit to usher-in temporary workers (longer-stay) from Asia. In spite of successfully bouncing back from a decade-long famine, the agricultural domain still became poorer when it lost several young & qualified workers to the much better-paid mining works. The federation president also stressed that the requirement for action is pressing with the sizeable scarcity of farm workers stalking the eastern Australian region. Over 33% of the farm workers happen to be young overseas individuals from the nations of Germany, France, Scotland, Ireland, and Denmark. A sizeable section of them happen to be in the Kangaroo Land on 417 backpacker or working holiday permits, even as the same confine their stay to only 6 months per recruiter/firm, and for not more than 2 working holiday permits (subject to some provisions being catered to). The concerned federation urged the administration to amend the 457 temporary long-stay permits to have room for those farm workers who have been suitably farm-trained to manage harvest machinery, but who don’t have the proper technical skills to make the cut for a 457 permit. It will permit young workers—from farm or trade backgrounds--to convert their 417 permits into special 457 permits, in case their recruiters/firms support the submission. Meanwhile, the Australian Immigration Minister addressed the state of affairs, observing that the key concern of the administration has always been to offer jobs to the national workers while simultaneously understanding the requirement for laborers for certain domains of the national economy, including agriculture. Chris Bowen, the minister, further said that despite the fact that the program for 457 permits was duly tailored to address scarcities of labor in the country--when no suitably skilled Australian workers are on hand--it was just open to farm activities fittingly backed by well recognized qualifications. He continued that the government fully understands that the scarcities of skill present BIG challenges to regional businesses of the country, with important repercussions for the feasibility of the economies of the concerned areas. He added that the administration is serious about backing regional groups to positively address the said matters. Bowen further said that it is up to the farmers to employ the program for Labor Agreements, which assists the temporary admission of the trained & semi-trained workers, in the regions wherein there could be domestic scarcities with the 457 program being inappropriate.
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