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Dial the whaaambulance:
Employers fear the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold hike – rising from $53,900 to $70,000 on Saturday – will threaten access to foreign workers and impact thousands of jobs across the country.
…National Farmers Federation chief executive Tony Mahar said “this is just one of many migration issues hurting farmers”.
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About the author
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.
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