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Thoughout the years, the chair of the Migration Council of Australia and big business lobbyist for the Australian Industry Group (AIG), Innes Willox, has urged the government not to cut immigration because of so-called ‘skills shortages’. For example, here’s Innes Willox writing in The Australian:
Australia does not have a population problem but we do have a skills problem…
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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.