ScoMo chaos as coolies to flood countryside

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Grown-ups:

Scott Morrison has dramatically reversed his opposition to a new agricultural visa, throwing a lifeline to his besieged Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, who is facing an internal push for a Barnaby Joyce comeback.

The Prime Minister told the National Farmers Federation Congress today that his government “will work towards establishing an agriculture visa”.

The move came less than a week after announcing a plan to provide more agricultural workers by forcing unemployed people to fill labour shortages, infuriating farmers.

It really isn’t right that only city employers get to destroy wages.

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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.