Dr. Peter Varela

There isn't a clear pathway for this cohort.

There are lots of different things that people do.

There are graduate visas.

There are the possibility to go from a graduate visa to a temporary employer-sponsored visa.

There are state and territory nominated visas.

There are various different things.

But essentially, that pathway is not working particularly well.

And the way that I would characterize that, we are encouraging people to do things for points.

We're encouraging people to study in regional areas, to do language tests, to do the sort of professional year programs that are available in some occupations, rather than sort of

giving the advice that you would give to a non-migrant graduate, which is go and get a grad job, do your best to get into the labor market.

And so that's sort of the headline advice.

Can we find a way to get a cleaner pathway for these cohorts into the Australian labor market?

OK, so I should start with the sort of acknowledgment that there is an item in the budget that says that there is going to be an optimization of the points test.

So this is something that is there.

There's very little additional information.

on this at the moment.

It's something that we expect more information over the coming months.

But there is policy moving in this space.

In terms of that points test, there are a couple of different ways that you can think about what's going wrong and how to improve it.

The first is that over the last sort of