Cafemageddon to intensify with migrant visa crackdown

Wednesday 24 April 2019

Via Domain comes the latest vested interest:

Tally Konstas can see four good reasons not to implement Labor’s proposed changes to skilled migration laws.

He has four migrant staff – two chefs and two floor managers – that he says he would not have been able to hire if the minimum wage for migrants was lifted in the manner Opposition Leader Bill Shorten proposed on Tuesday.

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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.