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However, it said its skilled migration program would target job shortages that could not be filled locally, and encourage migrants to take up positions in rural and regional locations where gaps needed to be plugged., promising a Labor government would lift the minimum pay rate for foreign workers on temporary skilled visas from $53,900 to $65,000 to prevent exploitation and lower the incentive for employers to hire foreign workers before Australians.
It was a controversial decision on Labor's part, with their political allies, the Greens, describing it as a"Trump-esque" move.
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