It’s all about communication

UNIVERSITY graduates from non-English speaking backgrounds who emigrate to Australia are far less likely to land jobs in their field of expertise than native English speakers. I wonder if Bob Birrell, the director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University received any money for this motherhood statement. The situation exists because we let them in without insisting on them being profficient in english. How can they communicate or even submit a resume if they can’t speak our language? All we are doing here is importing social security applicants. We’re not talking displaced refugees here who have a case to come into Australia without english, we’re talking professionals.

“Professional bodies should be setting higher standards based on actual evidence of what is required to operate as a professional in the Australian market. Some applicants are getting visas based on an assessment that they are capable of working in their profession when in fact some of them can’t even get jobs.”

Why do we let them in?