Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Vocational and Technical Education. Is the minister aware that welders have been on the National Skill Shortage List for nine of the last 10 years? Isn’t it his government’s skills failure that has opened the door to importing burgeoning numbers of foreign workers to be exploited with much lower rates of pay and driving down the wages of Australian workers?

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