Why won’t Gittins defend youth from cheap foreign labour any more?

Wednesday 26 July 2017

Ross Gittins appeared on the ABC yesterday where he blamed robots, capital, failing confidence, casualisation, the gig economy and Elvis Presley for weak wages. Listen here if you’d like.

I simply have to ask what has happened to this Ross Gittins from 2011:

How can he champion lower immigration amid mining boom labour shortages but fail completely to address mass migration during a period of labour oversupply?

Your nation’s kids need you, Ross. Get over the wowserishness.

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.