Ross Clennett

Will overseas workers live in tents? (because there’s no housing for them)

Ross Clennett
Oct 21, 2022
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Four months ago I wrote about the importance of improving Australia’s labour force participation rate given, with 480,000 vacancies.

Even if Australia’s participation rate rose only one percentage point (to 67.7%) that would still represent an additional 210,000 immediately available workers.

There are one million Australians who want to work but have bar…

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