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The AFR has taken another shot at RBA governor Phil Lowe for daring to admit that Australia’s mass immigration program pushed down wage growth.
The robber baron’s paper of choice has now enlisted economics editor John Kehoe to cherry-pick research and testimony claiming that immigration does not push down wages. Below are Kehoe’s main arguments:
Economic studies are inconclusive about the impact of immigration on wages.
“Australia’s disproportionately skilled migration program may be ‘decreasing inequality’ – because skilled foreign workers compete for jobs and wages against higher paid Australians”.
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Understorey explores the apparent absence of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals from various environmental campaigns with Dr Sukhmani Khorana, from Western Sydney University. Her research, done along with Claudia Sirdah, entitled Young Australian Migrants and Environmental Values, points to the fact that migrant communities are involved in doing environmental actions, like recycling, home-growing vegetables, and being thrifty - they just haven t called it environmentalism. With Western Australia now the third largest state numerically for overseas born individuals, environmentalists may need to think about how they are going to reach out to include more diverse members of the community in their frameworks and campaigns.