New Push to Attract Skilled Migrants to Victoria
Source: Victoria. Office of the Premier. Media Release
"Skilled migrants will be encouraged to move to Victoria, particularly to regional areas, under a new strategy to increase the state’s share of Australia’s skilled migrant intake to 28.5 per cent, from the current 26.8 per cent. The Premier, John Brumby, and the Minister for Skills and Workforce Participation, Jacinta Allan, released the next stage of the Victorian Government’s skilled migration strategy, which targets skilled and business migrants.Mr Brumby said the new strategy, Global Skills for Victoria, aimed to increase Victoria’s share of the nation’s intake of skilled and business migrants to 28.5 per cent by 2011. "