Business lobby’s immigration scab grab hits fever pitch

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The great immigration scab grab has hit fever pitch, with business groups demanding easier access to foreign workers alongside a big lift in the permanent migrant intake to ease purported ‘skills shortages’:

The single biggest problem currently faced by small businesses is worker shortages, Alexi Boyd, CEO of the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA), said…

“Migrants are the backbone of the small business economy,” Ms Boyd said.

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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.