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Stephen Howes – Director, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University – has lambasted a federal government proposal to make it easier to get more backpackers working on farms, noting that exploitation is already rife. From The Conversation:
Backpackers who have had a visa for one year can already get an extension for a second year if they have worked on a farm for three months. Some 36,000 did it last year…
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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.