The hoon around the week to July 17
TLDR: This week, demands to loosen restrictions on bringing in migrant workers grew to a crescendo amid widespread delays, cancellations and employer concerns about wage inflation. In Thursday’s Chorus, I looked at whether a loosening is a good idea on its own, and what a bipartisan deal on migration along with infrastructure spending should look like.
Also, the Reserve Bank hiked its official interest rate as expected and house prices kept falling, but I took a closer look in Wednesday’s Chorus at the central bank’s $12.7b worth of cheap loans for banks, which are diluting the effects of its…
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