One of Australia’s biggest tech companies has warned that it will take its business offshore if immigration rules are not loosened to deal with the current shortages and allow foreign workers to come onshore more easily.

5,000,000 jobs as we know it could disappear in the next 15 years and be replaced by tech jobs. Warning of a severe technological skills shortage in the next 10 to 15 years due to technological advancements, CEDA’s CEO Stephen Martin says almost 40 per cent of Australian jobs that exist today (5 million) have a ‘high to moderate chance of disappearing” and being replaced by highly skilled tech jobs.

Computerisation and automation of work is advancing at an unprecedented rate and is likely to do so for the next 20 years, notes CEDA’s major research report for 2015: Australia’s future workforce? But Australia’s commitment to educating the workforce for this sector is ‘woeful’ says Prof. Martin.

“Our labour market will be fundamentally reshaped by the scope and breadth of technological change, and if we do not embrace massive economic reform and focus on incentivising innovation, we will simply be left behind in an increasingly competitive global marketplace,” said Prof. Martin.

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In what has been described as the largest corruption scandal in the department of immigration, a Brisbane based case officer took over half a million dollars in bribes for granting visas to at least 59 foreigners.

Calls have now emerged for an overhaul of the visa approval process after the conviction of corrupt immigration officer, Filipino-born Alex Escala Allan, 52, from Doolandella, in Brisbane’s southwest.

Allan was sentenced in the District Court in Brisbane on Tuesday to eight months’ jail for secretly receiving $563,290 in bribes between May 2013 and April last year, according to a report in the Courier Mail.

Among those granted the visas include Allan’s son and girlfriend, both who are now awaiting deportation. DIBP has not made much headway in tracking the others.