Constituency questions
Murray Plains electorate
Mr WALSH (Murray Plains) (14:46): (6196) My constituency question is to the Minister for Industry Support and Recovery. What advice can the minister give to businesses in my electorate as to how they can get their skilled worker visa renewals done in a timely manner? I have a manufacturing business in Kyabram who submitted their skilled worker visa renewal application to the Victorian government five months ago, and they have not heard anything. The five workers have now relocated to New South Wales businesses, where their visa renewals were done within days. Unless the Victorian government process of skilled visa renewal improves, they will lose another two workers to New South Wales. Please, Minister, advise what your government can do to improve the skilled visa renewal process so we do not lose more staff to New South Wales.