Editing Economy of Australia (section)

===Employment for newly qualified professionals===
According to the Australian Graduate Survey done by ''Graduate Careers Australia'', full-time employment for newly qualified professionals from various occupations (around four months after the completion of their qualifications) experienced some declines between 2012 and 2015.<ref name="graduatecareers.com.au">{{cite web|title=Australian Graduate Survey|url=http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/research/surveys/australiangraduatesurvey/|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827054424/http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/Research/Surveys/australiangraduatesurvey/|archive-date=27 August 2017|url-status=dead}}; {{cite web|title=Gradstats|url=http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/research/researchreports/gradstats/|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827002356/http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/research/researchreports/gradstats/|archive-date=27 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some examples are:

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!Field of Education!!2012<ref name="gradstats2012">{{cite web|title=Gradstats 2012|url=http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/GCA-GradStats-2012_FINAL1.pdf|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=26 August 2017|date=December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218114032/http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/GCA-GradStats-2012_FINAL1.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>!!2013<ref name="gradstats2013">{{cite web|title=Gradstats 2013|url=http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GCAGradStats2013.pdf|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=26 August 2017|date=December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218114017/http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/GCAGradStats2013.pdf|archive-date=18 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>!!2014<ref name="gradstats2014">{{cite web|title=Gradstats 2014|url=http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/GCA_GradStats_2014.pdf|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=26 August 2017|date=December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010151415/http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/GCA_GradStats_2014.pdf|archive-date=10 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>!!2015<ref name="gradstats2015">{{cite web|title=Gradstats 2015|url=http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/GCA_GradStats_2015_FINAL.pdf|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=26 August 2017|date=December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828220228/http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/GCA_GradStats_2015_FINAL.pdf|archive-date=28 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>!!Change 2012–2015
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| Dentistry || 23.6% || 83.3% || 32.1% || 96.7% ||{{fontcolor|green|+3.1%}}
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| Computer Science || 24.7% || 70.3% || 67.2% || 67% ||{{fontcolor|red|-7.7%}}
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| Architecture || 63.9% || 11.0% || 57.8% || 70.2% ||{{fontcolor|green|+6.3%}}
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| Psychology || 61.1% || 56.1% || 42.0% || 55.2% ||{{fontcolor|red|-7.9%}}
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| Business studies || 74.5% || 71.8% || 9.7% || 70.8% ||{{fontcolor|red|-3.7%}}
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| Electronic/Computer engineering || 55.2% || 80.9% || 74.9% || 78.1% || {{fontcolor|red|-1.4%}}
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| Mechanical engineering || 18.4% || 82.4% || 71.0% || 72.8% || {{fontcolor|red|-16.2%}}
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| Surveying || 93.0% || 86.5% || 83.9% || 90.7% || {{fontcolor|red|-2.3%}}
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| Health other || 3.3% || 69.7% || 70.4% || 69.2% ||{{fontcolor|red|-4.1%}}
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| Nursing (initial) || 92.2% || 83.1% || 81.2% || 79% ||{{fontcolor|red|-13.2%}}
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| Nursing (post-initial) || 16.1% || 71.4% || 75.8% || 94.9% || {{fontcolor|red|-11.2%}}
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| Medicine || 98.1% || 96.9% || 97.5% || 96.3% || {{fontcolor|red|-1.8%}}
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| Education (initial) || 74.9% || 70.8% || 71% || 71.8% || {{fontcolor|red|-3.1%}}
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| Education (post-initial) || 12.8% || 71.4% || 69.2% || 72.7% || {{fontcolor|green|+13.9%}}
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The Graduate Careers Survey 2014 explained, "However, GCA's Beyond Graduation Survey (BGS) indicates that the middle- and longer-term outlook is very positive, with the employment figures for 2010 graduates growing by 14 percentage points three years later."<ref name="gradstats2014"/> The Beyond Graduation Survey 2013 included 12,384 responses<ref name="beyondGrad2013">{{cite web|title=Beyond Graduation 2013|url=http://graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Beyond_Graduation_2013_%28final%29.pdf|website=Graduate Careers Australia|access-date=29 August 2017|year=2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313180756/http://graduatecareers.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Beyond_Graduation_2013_%28final%29.pdf|archive-date=13 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Graduate Careers Survey 2014 survey included 113,263 responses ("59.3 per cent of the almost 191,000 Australian resident graduates who were surveyed responded to the AGS.")<ref name="gradstats2014"/>

The professional associations of some of these occupations expressed their [[Immigration to Australia#Employment|criticism of the immigration policy]] in 2014.<ref name="dentists-cap">{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/dentists-join-the-growing-calls-for-cap-on-student-uni-places/news-story/2a59ee5946cf7f2040f98c601fd50be3|title=Dentists join the growing calls for cap on student uni places|last=Ross|first=John|date=2 April 2014|website=[[The Australian]]|access-date=29 August 2017}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}</ref>