Speaker 1: Would you hire an overseas trade? Are you a boss
Speaker 1: that is in a position to hire overseas trads? Well,
Speaker 1: give me a quick ring one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Why is it that it's so hard to find trades?
Speaker 1: And also why if you were a trade, why are
Speaker 1: there so few traders in the trade? Where's everybody going
Speaker 1: to one three one eight seven three or on the
Speaker 1: text zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Because Australia has a massive housing demand and supply problem
Speaker 1: with a huge lack of tradees and a property expert
Speaker 1: Garth Davis is on the phone morning to you mate.
Speaker 1: So WA have this build a life in Wa trad
Speaker 1: incentive and there's ten k in involved in this too.
Speaker 1: Where does that come from?
Speaker 2: They offer ten thousand dollars to get people to move
Speaker 2: across obviously quite a long way to come. So basically
Speaker 2: they get five grand once they arrive to help them
Speaker 2: with some in costs, and then there's a five grand
Speaker 2: later on once they place for a period of time.
Speaker 2: So it has been very successful so far, particularly with
Speaker 2: people of New Zealand where some of their constructions slowed
Speaker 2: up a little bit. They've got they've got ability and
Speaker 2: access of excessive workers there and getting them to Western Australia.
Speaker 3: And so far, so good. We're working really well.
Speaker 2: They seem to have had five main top occupations that.
Speaker 3: Have been so far through the program.
Speaker 2: That's been electricians, cops, plumbers, brick layers and earth moving
Speaker 2: plant operators.
Speaker 1: So ten grand for traders from New Zealand to relocate.
Speaker 1: This could be the answer nationwide. But why don't we
Speaker 1: have enough tradees in Australia.
Speaker 3: Well that's a really good thing and look it's gain.
Speaker 2: We're finding that younger people are sort of moving away
Speaker 2: from those sort of more if we call them hard
Speaker 2: sort of outdoor brick laying jobs, contracuting jobs, preferring to
Speaker 2: try and get more the IT jobs and sort of
Speaker 2: desk and internal jobs. So the problem is there. It
Speaker 2: probably hasn't enough focus. And the trainee roles around construction
Speaker 2: really also they have that really helps building and construction
Speaker 2: employers to cover the cost employing apprentice and trainees, so
Speaker 2: that no silver ball at harder we get more tradees
Speaker 2: to build more properties which were desperate for. We need
Speaker 2: more properties for people to occupy and more properties for rental,
Speaker 2: and a huge part of that problem is around the supply.
Speaker 2: The problems around the supplies. We don't have enough tradees,
Speaker 2: so we to go and poach some. We're going to
Speaker 2: have to incentivize some to come infantry. But the longer
Speaker 2: term solution is that we actually need we need a
Speaker 2: lot of funding and really target around the prep and
Speaker 2: the training. We've got to make that become very much
Speaker 2: more attractive for the younger people to come through those pathways.
Speaker 1: And how do the existing tradees in USU Tralia.
Speaker 3: I feel about this scheme, Well.
Speaker 2: Look the way it is at the moment, there's a
Speaker 2: massive undersupply of them.
Speaker 3: I know for a.
Speaker 2: Fact one when I was at a lone recently and
Speaker 2: it's just some of the numbers really sort of blow
Speaker 2: your mind. The average of a brick layer in Western
Speaker 2: Australia is sixty two. So we do not have young
Speaker 2: enough people, enough younger people coming through these these very
Speaker 2: important skills and jobs that need to be filled, and
Speaker 2: so it's becoming a big protz in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2: I don't think the establish people and the trades in
Speaker 2: the market chare and the workforce have got a problem
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: In fact, getting over work. They're working maybe six days
Speaker 3: a week, seven days a week.
Speaker 2: They really under pressure because we need we need these
Speaker 2: property builders are under pressure to produced them faster. They're
Speaker 2: putting trades under pressure, and there's stress because there's stress
Speaker 2: in the building.
Speaker 3: Industry because there's not enough trade.
Speaker 2: Ones that we do have are getting pushed too hard,
Speaker 2: and you know, and that's not good too, because it
Speaker 2: starts affecting their wealth, health and also the quality of
Speaker 2: the bills.
Speaker 1: And what about the employees. Are they keen for the
Speaker 1: hiring and overseas trading?
Speaker 2: Yes, again if the red tape taken away from that.
Speaker 2: So they're desperately in most of the capital cities around
Speaker 2: the country and they're trying to bring in more labor.
Speaker 2: And it's this catch twenty two in Australia where we
Speaker 2: try to manage the immigration into the country because you know,
Speaker 2: part of the problem is we haven't managed well the
Speaker 2: housing supply and the immigration coming in. So we've had
Speaker 2: too much emission coming in and too little supply of
Speaker 2: dwellings and homes. So that's how we've got us into
Speaker 2: this problem. We've got too many people for the houses
Speaker 2: that we've got at the moment. That's the prices and
Speaker 2: the rents. So what we need to do is we
Speaker 2: do need to get these skilled labors. And it's not
Speaker 2: in construction, it's another specific trades and industries. But we
Speaker 2: need to be bringing the right type of people that
Speaker 2: can help us out of this problem because the only
Speaker 2: way we're going to get out of this problem is
Speaker 2: to supply, and supply we need more skilled labor and
Speaker 2: you know in the civic areas again electricians, cop and
Speaker 2: as plumber's, brick layers, earth movers.
Speaker 3: Et cetera. And what we've got to do is bring
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 2: Right people in the right quantities so we can actually
Speaker 2: get the supply, but not further make it harder for
Speaker 2: finding residents and putting a roof over people's heads because
Speaker 2: if we're going to bring these trade is in got
Speaker 2: to live somewhere, so it has to be managed very
Speaker 2: very carefully and cutting the red tape that we can
Speaker 2: get them in quickly, get their right approvals, right training,
Speaker 2: if they've got to do any slight conversions with their skills,
Speaker 2: and let's get these people on the tools and let's
Speaker 2: get building these homes that we desperately need.