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Originally posted by moorookamick: ↑

Since the 1980s, neo-Liberalism has:
-privatised some of our major businesses (CBA, Telstra , Qantas etc ) which were wages leaders & trade union shops .
The mix of Government owned and closed union businesses meant that households of employees of these businesses could live
on one wage.
-Neo-Liberal Governments have made trade union membership optional in most industries
-Tradies who were the wage leaders within the Trade Union movement were encouraged to morph into independant contractors
by the Howard Government (both for employee & employer tax benefits) and became classified as "small businesses"
-457 skilled visas oversupplied skilled labour market and hindered wage break outs.
-Big business outsourcing to the 3rd world put downward wage pressure on low skilled work
-Automation & business engineering ensured that there was at least 5% unemployed to cap wage increases..

And what does this have to do with immigration you might ask?

A lot, because most working class & middle class families need both parents to work to make family ends meet due
to suppressed wages ( in the past our spikes in inflation has been caused by wage break outs but since Little Johnie
as elected in 1997, all that changed thanks to Neo-Liberal policies .

And this, folks is why we have have 1.7 births per Aussie female ; not replacement level and hence the need for immigration

Add to that , the trend of women deferring childbearing in lieu of developing their careers and there you have it:

In summary, the driving engine of natural population growth, the working class & the middle class, need two bread winners
and smaller families to live comfortable because of the overwhelming downward wage pressure caused by Neo-Liberal economc policies .

Despite Costello's baby bonus of $3K ( one for mum, one for dad & one for Australia) we still have a 1.7 births per Aussie female !

So all you anti-immigration advocates, do the hard yards under the blankets for the country and then you'll have a patriotic arguement
for Australia

PS: I forgot the SS marriage mob!

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PS: I forgot the Neo-Liberal stunt of FTAs (Free Trade Agreements ) Australia has about 7?) which puts pressure on skilled wages and has
caused the gutting of our well paid manufacturing jobs.
MM
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