Take a Leaf out of NZ’s Book: How We Could Deal With the Worker Shortage

Governments have tended to use migration as the lazy solution to fill worker shortages, but a simple solution lies right across the ditch.

An elderly commuter at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 4, 2015. Michael Dodge/Getty Images

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In 2023, Australia’s worker shortage crisis changed from being unprecedented to being persistent.