The Australian government has announced changes to its current visa programs, with plans to axe the four-year 457 visa for highly skilled workers and replace it with two temporary skills visas.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warned the labour market testing requirements for the new visas - including advertising jobs over six months - would be rigorously policed.
But the Australian Prime Minister has said that 'Australian workers must have priority for Australian jobs'. The federal government will abolish the 457 visa program that allows skilled foreigners to work in Australia.
"So the 457 visa will be replaced by a new temporary visa specifically created to recruit the best and the brightest in the national interest".
The 457 will be replaced with a temporary work visa, which will be valid for two or four years, requires that the visa-holder have at least two years' work experience and a criminal record check.
For the shorter visa, more than 200 jobs will be removed from an existing list of about 650 eligible professions. Many Indians will use to find employment in Australia via 457 visa program. This country still welcomes skilled workers from around the world, ' he added.
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Turnbull said that under the new rules, Australians must be given the "first crack" at jobs, while skilled migrants would be brought in to "fill the gaps" in areas which are suffering a skills shortage.
As soon as the announcement came regarding the end of 457 work visa, reactions started coming in, from Australian startups.
Although this path remains open, US President Donald Trump has already made it harder for the visas to be granted, reflected in the fact that H-1B applications this year dropped for the first time in five years.
Mr Bennison and Mr Pearson both said they did not think the changes were radical and they welcomed the safeguards to Australian jobs.
"Where employers breach their obligations then they won't be able to get further people in under visas", Mr Turnbull told ABC radio on Wednesday. But the abolition of visas under 457 is likely to impact relations between India and Australia.
As well as putting some job seekers offside, a parliamentary enquiry previous year found the visa system left foreign workers open to exploitation, and that many were being underpaid or otherwise taken advantage of as a result.
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