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Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2024)
Reporting Period: 2024
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Social
Social Achievements
- Quantified the economy-wide impact if migrant professionals worked in jobs that match their skills at a similar rate to Australian-born workers.
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Almost half (44%) of permanent migrants in Australia work below their skill level.
- Insufficient English language proficiency for employment contexts; challenges with qualification recognition and licensing; intersecting barriers for women, especially as secondary applicants; and discrimination in the labour market, particularly given employer preferences toward local experience.
Mitigation Strategies
- Recommendations for coordinated and consistent action across sectors to realize the transformative benefits of unlocking the full skills potential of migrants in Australia.
- Invest in building workplace-ready English language proficiency
- Improve the overseas qualifications assessment and recognition system
- Support women migrants and secondary applicants
- Address discrimination in Australia’s labour market