There is no skills shortage - there is a shortage of social and industrial relations infrastructure to actually bring people to want to work for the New Robber Baron type of 'management' wrought by Howard.
Firstly - when your work is under-rated and underpaid while the - for example - Robber Barons on 'developments' are repeatedly handed a swathe of cash by stupid banks, then skim the cream off the top from day one without turning a sod, paying top dollar to their sister's 'administrative company' for administrative services', and then somehow find their 'company' broke just before construction ends, so they are forced to leave countless tradies and workers out of cash ... and then the common herd are forced by the same banks to make up any shortfall by paying extra fees and interest rates (funny that) - well - what can you say?
And all this on top of rorting workers' pay and conditions at every possible step, while trying to demand that dedicated tradies working on a job adhere strictly to any hours you demand, as if they are serfs - thus defeating the very idea of employing contractors at all and devastating morale for the job - you are headed for disaster.
Then consider that the majority of workers on these things are in the Aspen Syndrome - unable to afford to live in the area in which they work, forced to live at often huge distances in the, in Australia often under-infrastructured, 'dormitory suburbs' and 'commute' to work via increasingly costly 'privatised' rail or bus, or by using equally 'privatised' PUBLIC roads at huge cost daily - who in his/her right mind would accept a contract or work offer that simply does not pay its way?
Better to sit at home with the tinnies and football.... many are probably better off that way - and the future for the common workers is grim regardless of whether they work or not.... no own home due to massive costs to suit parasites, car wears out from commuting, watching the cream skimmed off by the Robber Barons while governments of all stamps set about reducing the workers under despotism so as to reduce their political, social and monetary power....... well ... what else need you say?
There is no skills shortage that requires mass immigration over and over - there is a savage skills shortage in those who demand the right to run the show...... and for the likes of mothra here - there is a Wills shortage, since all the old bastards refuse to lie down and die and leave hefty wills to someone else...
And to think I've been sick as a poisoned dog for a year or so - but not mentally sick like some..... they're the blind ones! Maybe poured bleach in their own eyes so they didn't have to see .... that's the sensible thing to do....
Parthian Shot - well - if you are an Aborigine, you can just sit and wait for the Golden Nut Lick from all those juicy reparations, compensations and royalties on every basic in the country to just fall into your lap once Albo and his cohorts get finished with the extra 26 unacknowledged pages of the Mein Kamp 'Uluru Statement from the Heart'........
Hand out the bleach, Igor - get your cousin Quasi back on those bells...