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'Locals are missing out': Shorten vows to crack down on foreign worker visas

Labor is promising to boost the minimum wage of skilled overseas workers to prevent them being used as cheap replacements for local workers.

Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten speaks to workers at a barbecue event during a visit to Gladstone Ports in Gladstone, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING
Labor Leader Bill Shorten says jobs currently going to overseas workers should be filled by Australians. Source: AAP

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