When will the left stand up for Australian workers?

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For 15 years, the Australian union movement has stood by silently while Australia’s immigration program was more than doubled:

The impacts on Australian workers has been terrible, with real wage growth stagnating for a decade:

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Chronic underemployment and labour underutilisation, which has obviously gotten much worse in the wake of the COVID-19 shock:

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About the author
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.