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Politicians don’t want migrants but they do need workers
Neither major party has managed immigration well. That has not stopped Peter Dutton from making an election issue out of it.
Laura TingleColumnistIt is sobering to realise that it is more than a quarter of a century since Pauline Hanson burst onto Australia’s national political stage with her provocative maiden speech which complained that “mainstream Australians” were being subjected to a form of “reverse racism” when it came to Aboriginal people, and that the nation was in danger of being “swamped by Asians”.
Governments have muddled through by offering huge numbers of temporary work visas to foreign arrivals. Bloomberg
Corrects the potential economic cost of spending on living expenses alone by international students to $4 billion, not $14 billion as earlier published.
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