Reforming the skilled migration system includes:

• Developing a construction trade contractor visa that enables skilled migrants to operate as trade contractors.
• Enabling overseas students to undertake apprenticeships in construction trades.
• Supporting industry to expand recruitment programs in overseas markets.
• Providing clear pathways to permanent residency for temporary workers in construction trade occupations.

• Promote the construction industry as an attractive industry for all workers by ensuring acceptable, safe and appropriate behaviour on construction sites.
• Confidence must be restored to construction sites to attract the workers the industry desperately needs by establishing an industry specific regulator whose powers expand beyond industrial relations matters to deal with, for example:
  • menacing conduct’ as identified by the CFMEU administrator,
  • anti-competitive conduct in breach of the Competition and Consumer Act, and
  • other illegal activity.