After well over a decade of engaging in a quiet bipartisan endorsement of Australia’s high immigration intake, Labor has finally broken with the Coalition to call for immigration to be cut to safeguard the wages and living standards of households.
For years Australian’s have overwhelmingly opposed high immigration rates as congestion and overstretched health/education systems became regular occurrences in most of our major cities.
Now with the economy heading into at least a harsh recession and possibly a depression, Labor has seen the writing on the wall immigration needs to be cut.
This is not the first time Labor has seen the necessity...
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