Australian Financial Review
The Queensland and West Australian economies are stagnating due to a lack of labour. Dr Susanne Bahn, Edith Cowan University academic, says not enough skilled workers are migrating across from the southern states due to the ‘perceived high cost of living, but we’ve found in the mining sector that’s not so true because of the high income you get’.
The West Australian government has set a precedent by denying any [...]