Gina mini-me defends 457 labour importation

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By Leith van Onselen

Gina Rinehart-backed Bannister Downs Dairy has warned that Australia has a problematic “workforce culture”, whereby younger people did not want to do menial labour or wanted to get paid too much money to do it, thus forcing businesses to use imported labour under 457 worker visas. From The Age:

“It is not just the cost of [labour] and the cost of managing it,which we all share in WA but the growing issues that we are getting with culture and the work ethic that is coming through and the preparedness to do what needs doing,” Ms Daubney told a Committee for the Economic Development of Australia luncheon in Perth on Tuesday…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.