For my money these are in fact sensible changes to the system. Where there are indeed legitimate areas of need then employers will be required to demonstrate market testing.
It demonstrates that the government doesn't have a tin ear on wages growth and it happens to protect them against one nation to some degree where people like George Christiansan is polling them neck and neck.
It is a little odd though that Tony Abbott was in fact the one that removed penalties that had previously been put in by Labor to penalise employers that exceeded their approved quota.
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Why would anyone do that if they in fact though that there should be a quota in the first place. What a waste of oxygen that man was.