Mutual exploitation

The government’s immigration reset increasingly better suits the name “beset”. Especially since Immigration Minister Michael Wood declared the other day that the previous policies were “a bit of an exploitist charter”.

To borrow a remark from former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, Wood unfortunately missed a very good opportunity to shut up.

The pickle he’s now in over the critical shortage of nurses is that it’s embarrassingly clear the government is insisting on exploiting immigrant nurses on its terms rather than theirs.

Every significant health lobby is pleading for incoming nurses to be given full “green-list” residency so they can,