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at 11:00 am on July 2, 2021 | 20 comments
Anybody hoping that Labor leader Anthony Albanese would take a lower immigration platform to the upcoming federal election will be disappointed by his upcoming speech today to the National Press Club:
Anthony Albanese will launch a Bob Hawke-style jobs summit if he becomes prime minister…
[Albanese will] voice his concerns about the Intergenerational Report’s prediction that the temporary migration population will almost double over the next 40 years.
“Migration policy done right can lift wages and job opportunities and contribute to economic growth,” he will say. “But as Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has pointed out, the reliance on temporary workers by business has ‘not made wages responsive to the economic conditions’.”
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