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During COVID when the borders were locked down and we had no migration unemployment was falling rapidly and wages were actually rising at a good pace.

But apparently for some reason we need backpackers and Indian and Chinese students to work in our cafes, hotels, petrol stations, supermarkets, etc meanwhile there are plenty of unemployed local people who can't find a job.....

I mean sure if we importing mass numbers of GPs, Cardiologists, etc every year to fill actual skill shortages that we have that would be something, but that isn't what Australia is actually doing. Plenty of entry level jobs are awash in a flood of oversupplied applicants thanks to migration meanwhile the skills shortages in highly skilled jobs where we actually need migration those shortages stubbornly persist year after year. I would rather have zero net migration compared to the system we have now.