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Both sides are pushing buttons on migration, one is being more subtle
Migration long ago became a lazy method, adopted by both sides of politics, to generate growth in the absence of any reform or productivity agenda,
Phillip CooreyPolitical editorIt was not that long ago when it was Labor telling foreigners to go to the back of the queue. Literally.
To be precise, it was March 2013, an election was due later that year, and the political fortunes of both Julia Gillard and her strife-torn government were in sharp decline.
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