A severe shortage of engineers in Australia will worsen unless the Federal Government increases the number of engineering university placements, Melbourne demographer Bob Birrell has warned.
Dr Birrell, the director of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University, said expectations that migrant engineers could fill the gap were unrealistic.
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