Perth, WA included in Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme

Good news to those who are planning to migrate to Perth, Western Australia; the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS) is set to increase Perth’s attractiveness amongst the States, wherein employers will be given the chance to recruit skilled workers from outside the country and are qualified within the current range of temporary and permanent skilled Visa options.

This is good news to Perth, which has been having quite a dilemna because of its high job demand statistics. The RSMS will include Perth city and it allows employers to sponsor overseas workers whose skills match the list under the skilled Australian Visa system and it even allows overseas workers with temporary Visa’s to apply, as long as they are planning to permanently stay in Perth or within the country.

According to a latest survey gathered, mining, which is so far one of the biggest industries in Western Australia alone,  has a new capital expenditure for the year 2010-2011, which is around $55.5 billion. It is the highest recorded investment and is nearly four times the average annual level for the past 30 years. And for such a big industry, it also needs a huge amount of manpower to keep this up and running.  Total value for all the resource projects that are being undertaken as of the moment have reached up to $380 billion, which is exactly one-quarter of the annual GDP of Australia.  Western Australia is the center of the new investment; with around $174 billion within planned investments over advanced projects in Australia, $109 billion goes to WA.

Chris Bowen MP stated “We are giving RSMS application’s the highest priority as delivering immigrants where Australia needs them the most is important.” Indeed,  the government announced  the allocation of 16,000 places for the RSMS system. However, it is interesting to note that while the resource sector is important for WA, it is not the only industry that needs a huge amount of manpower.  Temporary and permanent Australian migration really does play a major part  for addressing the current labour capacity constraints, while in turn, it creates domestic labor shortages in some places of WA. Perth has certainly a lot of issues to address to, as the mining boom have not only created labor shortages within mining, but with other industries as well.