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Step up immigration because we have run out of people

The ACTU wants to throttle with bureaucracy the skilled migration program, which should be loosened to fill the worker shortages holding business back.

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Australia has run out of people.

An unemployment rate of 3.4 per cent and the ongoing COVID-19-related blockages to our migration system have worsened and deepened a situation that is constraining our ability to raise living standards and move towards our environmental objectives.

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Innes Willox is chief executive of the Australian Industry Group.
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