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Alleged writer and Crikey politics editor. These days mainly here for the greyhounds.

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crikey.com.au
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    Bernard Keane‏Verified account @BernardKeane 15 Apr 2015

    Article in The Oz today has agribusiness simultaneously complaining about "high wage costs" AND labor shortages.

    2:54 PM - 15 Apr 2015
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      1. Mike Carlton‏ @MikeCarlton01 15 Apr 2015
        Replying to @BernardKeane

        @BernardKeane Are agribusiness and the mining industry ever NOT whingeing about how life is so unfair to them ?

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      2. Jo Diddley‏ @jot_au 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane it's a transparently greedy plea for cheap foreign labour

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      3. Dame Holly Is a Bot‏ @Lee_Tennant 15 Apr 2015
        Replying to @jot_au

        @jot_au Clearly demonstrating the need to reinstate slavery @BernardKeane

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      4. Jo Diddley‏ @jot_au 15 Apr 2015
        Replying to @Lee_Tennant

        @Lee_Tennant @BernardKeane or to admit that's what min wage work actually amounts to...virtual slavery

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      5. Dame Holly Is a Bot‏ @Lee_Tennant 15 Apr 2015
        Replying to @jot_au

        @jot_au Low-wage jobs in the US are basically legal begging. It's appalling @BernardKeane

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      2. Mark Pesce‏ @mpesce 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane MOAR CHEAPERER LABOUR!!1!

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      3. finally changed my costume‏ @misskylie77 15 Apr 2015
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        @mpesce @BernardKeane why can't we just have slavery!!!!

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      1. الون موسك 🏳️‍🌈‏ @cleverick 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane they must go together, right? If only they had an inexhaustible supply of desperate unemployed willing to work for peanuts.

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      1. MAK‏ @kilkenny_martin 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane. Nothing has changed in two hundred years they think slavery is the answer.

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      1. Malcolm Ellis‏ @43a6f0ce5dac4ea 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane more 247s? plenty workers,Ppl come from all round the world for jobs when our own not willing t go few kms fr few weeks

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      1. MD‏ @HazchemD 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane life is soooo unfair!

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      1. Dame Su Do Nim‏ @su_do_nim 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane They missed the supply and demand lesson, obviously

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      1. Sean Tolich‏ @Tolich 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane only looking to take the upside from a free market

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      1. Chris Ford‏ @ctford 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane Aren't they the same thing?

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      1. Dave Miles.‏ @DaveMiles60 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane Because they want return to good Old Days. You know... serfdom.

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      1. syl mobile‏ @sylmobile 15 Apr 2015
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        @BernardKeane #Genius

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