Let’s recall Bill Shorten’s comments in November whereby he claimed that temporary foreign workers are ‘taking the jobs’ of Australians and must be pared-back. From The Guardian:
“What’s happening is we’ve got people coming to work in Australia, nearly 1m people [or more] with temporary work rights and, in some cases, they’re getting ripped off and exploited, lowering wage outcomes and taking the jobs of nurses, motor mechanics, carpenters, auto-electricians…