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A deliberate population growth strategy
TL;DR: Our latest wave of accidentally-on-purpose temporary worker migration is causing all sorts of grief, for some in the short run, and everybody in the long run.
Cases of fraud and overcrowding comitted against temporary workers in Auckland by ‘accredited employers’ was reported by Newshub’s Nick Truebridge here and here this week, but follows multiple reports by Lucy Xia at RNZ last month here and here, Steve Kilgallon at Stuff here and here, and Lincoln Tan at the NZ Herald here.
Under intense pressure to fill empty jobs and put a lid on wage inflation, the Labour Government rushed…
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