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Labor's crackdown on temporary visa requirements won't much help Australian workers

  • Written by Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University
Labor's crackdown on temporary visa requirements won't much help Australian workersLabor wants higher minimum pay for temporary visa holders, but most are already being paid much more.Shutterstock

Bill Shorten is holding out the prospect of protecting Australian workers from foreign ones.

He has pledged to tighten the visa system for short-term skilled migrants, ensuring they have to be paid more so that “it isn’t...

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