Premier Roger Cook says the Commonwealth is open to working with his state to encourage more backpackers to travel west for work.
Western Australia is ramping up pressure on the Albanese government to encourage more international backpackers to venture across the Nullarbor to work in areas left exposed by a planned federal crackdown on working holidaymakers.
Premier Roger Cook met Immigration Minister Tony Burke in Canberra on Thursday to discuss the ramifications of federal government plans to cut the number of second and third-year working holiday visas.
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