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The business lobby used last week’s AFR Business Summit to pressure Prime Minister Scott Morrison to support a ‘more ambitious’ immigration program:
BHP chief executive Mike Henry told the Summit there was a pressing need to return to pre-pandemic levels of skilled migration…
The Business Council of Australia wants the cap increased to 220,000 places for each of 2022-23 and 2023-24 intake to catch up on lost skilled migration, and then revert to 190,000 a year thereafter.
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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.
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