Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Employment, in writing, on 14 November 2014:

Is the Minister aware of the views of Dr Bob Birrell from Monash University's Centre for Population and Urban Research, as reported by Edmund Tadros in "Accounting bodies do about-face on jobs for foreign students" (Australian Financial Review, 29 October 2014), that the unemployment figures for Melbourne's north are being compounded by the fact that local unemployed people are currently competing with over one million temporary migrants with working rights visas in Australia, for the same occupations.

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