Foreign workers to fly in before Christmas
John KehoeEconomics editor
Prime Minister Scott Morrison plans to open the border to foreign workers before Christmas and said the nation must fix supply chain port blockages if it is to make the most of a post-lockdown economic rebound.
Amid business angst about the rising cost of labour and supplies, the Reserve Bank of Australia cited a fivefold increase in shipping costs and said the price of raw materials used for building new homes had increased at its fastest annual pace since the 1980s.
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