Australia will fail to deliver its ambitious defence, energy and housing pipelines unless Canberra stops “hand-wringing” and embraces skilled migration to fill critical project gaps, warns outgoing New York consul-general Heather Ridout.
Returning to Australia next year after four years in Manhattan, the former AustralianSuper chair said political anxiety over immigration risked squandering a “chance of a lifetime” to build out national infrastructure.
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