Australia’s new Immigration Minister David Coleman has flagged a revamp of regional visas, saying some towns are begging for migrants.
“That's something I'm looking at very closely at the moment,” Mr Coleman told SBS Punjabi on Wednesday.
“There are a number of different regional visa classes at the moment and one of the things I'm assessing is the effectiveness of each of those programs and potential ways of improving those.”
Currently, there are several visas available to migrants to fills skills shortages in rural and regional Australia.
Towns including Warrnambool in Victoria, the Goldfields region of Western Australia and the entire state of South Australia are asking for thousands of migrants, according to Mr Coleman.
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