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MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 12:15 am on April 28, 2021 | 3 comments Earlier this month, the ABC’s business editor, Ian Verrender, penned a fantastic article debunking the business lobby and Coalition’s incessant claim that Australia is experiencing chronic skills shortages, thereby necessitating the large-scale importation of foreign workers. Verrender’s key arguments were as follows: The shortage claim lacks empirical evidence: “If it really is the case that skille...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 9:00 am on April 26, 2021 | 17 comments There’s revolution brewing at the ABC. A fightback against the fake left editorial viewpoint that played a major role in destroying Australian worker’s living standards in the last cycle via its defence of unbridled immigration. In the last few months, ABC’s Ian Verrender has led on the issue. Now Gareth Hutchence has joined in: Morrison intends to reopen borders and restore mass immigration. That will...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 9:40 am on April 20, 2021 | 2 comments The loss of 500,000 temporary migrants and the closure of Australia’s international border to foreign workers has done a wonderful thing for Australia’s labour market – it has pushed the underemployment rate to its lowest level since June 2014, as revealed in last week’s March labour market release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS): Australia’s underemployment rate has fallen to a seven...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 1:00 pm on April 19, 2021 | 10 comments The ABC’s business editor, Ian Verrender, has written a terrific article debunking the business lobby’s incessant claim that Australia is experiencing skills shortages and needs to import migrant workers. According to Verrender: The shortage claim lacks empirical evidence: “If it really is the case that skilled labour is in such short supply, why aren’t wages being bid into the stratosphere by despe...

Get ready for a budget cash splash Posted 3 updated 14 AprApril 2021 at 9:48pm In case its passed everyone by, we are in the final leg of the political cycle. ( Share Print text only You know that old proverb: "You cant have your cake and eat it too"? If there ever was a statement that seemed lacking in logic, it was that. Ok, I get the concept. It represents two mutually exclusive choices. But really, whats the point of having the cake if you arent going to eat it? You can always let it go st...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content For years, your ABC has been the go-to platform for biased pro-mass immigration reporting. It has regularly provided space to contributors pushing the ‘Big Australia’ agenda, including Liz Allen, Abul Rizvi, and various business lobbyists, while rarely affording the same opportunity to those seeking lower, sustainable levels of immigration. With this brief background in mind, it is heartening to see the ABC’s business editor, Ian Verrender, que...

If you really want to do something patriotic this year, if you really want to help our economy recover from impacts of the pandemic, then you should demand a pay rise, writes Ian Verrender.

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 9:00 am on December 24, 2020 | 12 comments Sir Fomo McSpruikerson is an expatriate billionaire and proud proprietor of The Strayan, a vanity media project designed to boost his assets.  NSW Police file missing person report for ABC journalist Ian Verrender ABC journalist Ian Verrender has been reported missing by NSW Police, exactly one week after penning an article critical of Australia’s relationship with China at the national broadcaster. Th...

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content From the sensible Ian Verrender at the ABC: So, what’s Plan B? For Australian exporters suddenly caught in the headlights of an increasingly hostile regime in Beijing, the answer, it appears, is: there isn’t one. If it hasn’t sunk in quite yet, the chances of a rapprochement are slimming by the day and any chance of mending the relationship now seems out of reach. Plan A, so far, has involved increasingly shrill cries from our business leaders...