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Accelerating our churn and burn economy
TL;DR: The Government has just loosened migration settings dramatically in a last-minute attempt to stop a systemic health system crisis turning into a catastrophe over the winter, just ahead of the October 14 election.
Yet again, a short-termist and reactive policy is being used to try to solve a structural problem, rather than challenging or changing the politically difficult conditions creating the problem.
This latest lever-pulling is unlikely to work, and will only accelerate our ‘churn and burn’ economic approach that sucks in as many skilled and unskilled workers as possible to replace…
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