"Then there’s a business community that complains about a chronic shortage of particular workers in our major cities or an agriculture sector that would quickly end up on life support if the number of backpackers were cut too hard.
And there is an additional calculation that Burke, as minister, has to make that is of little concern to the opposition and not at all a concern for One Nation: Labor has tended to win majority support from key migrant communities, such as the Chinese-Australian and Indian-Australian diasporas."
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