This is not an issue of overpopulation of a country the size and wealth of Australia. Australia needs immigration, the quality of applicants ideally should be regulated and to a lesser extent the spectrum of cultures
You surprise me, your name dosent sound anglo I would assume you have some migrant heritage, if so where your parents engineers, doctors or lawyers from the mother land? Maybe .0001% chance they were
What would have happened if we maintained a very stringent white australia policy of 60's
Who would have worked on our building sites, give us a taste of foreign cusine that we go out weekly for and now take for granted, worked in the most basic of Jobs that established australians would feel too menial to partake in
Migrants serve a purpose of filling that void, take a look around you every day whos working 6 am at Maccas, cleaning amenities, driving taxis, serving at servos, labouring on building sites, driving trucks, etc etc not just to trivialise what my point is
Just remember 99.99% of the austrlian population is migrant based and Im sure australia is a better place as a result of it
Our unemployment and inflation rate is one of the lowest in the world if we do not supplement work with cheaper labour you would never be able to build a home, all your goods and services that you take for granted would be too expensive, that is why all our manufacturing is going overseas. Is that good for our economy?
We take for granted that prices locally are affordable,I tell you one thing our economy cannot be all service based and if our kids do not want to do the undesirable jobs then labour rates will definately increase and your standard of living will suffer
I know my kids dont want to do those basic jobs, my parents where migrants with low paying jobs, I got into uni the hard way studying, but guess what my kids donot want to do the jobs we take for granted as being done by low skilled migrants
Unfortunately the majority of these migrants will gravitate to the cities but hey when the english came over the early settlers established cities and every migrant culture subsequently has followed suit to areas where low cost/skilled labour has been required or was available it is a fact of life that migrants fill this requirement and the government knows this.
Our whole economy is not entirely skilled and service based,yet we have have one of the lowest inflation and employment rates in the world and techinically we were only forced into recession by a media fuelled frenzy derived from overseas. A total of 200+ years of immigration must be helping I suspect
Last time I went outside the ratio of white Austrlians (anglo/celtic/saxon)to migrant base is atleast 1:1 and that is being conservative
Unfortunately immigration of soughts is required and at the moment we cannot encourage the soughts of numbers we need from similar cultures to our own, the majority which is obviously is from none english speaking backgounds of lower undeverloped economies
I think the point as I see it is that if we take in migrants they should be able to assimulate, respect our culture and enter the workforce and not be a drain on our social security system.This is why we should atleast have the minimum requirement of being skilled, either trade or tertiary education, speak english and becoming an australian citizen and relinquishing their native birth right.
These people even though skilled will generally levitate to lower skilled/paying jobs up until they can establish themselves in their respective fields
Dont get me wrong even though I believe migration has its place i am not for unregulation. Ideally the government should tighten up its policy with respects to assylum seekers or migrants without papers that want to jump the queue and pressure our government to take them
Who wants someone elses rubbish, those who have fled their country as dissidents, we laxed our border controls in the 70's and unfortunately some of the undesirable element of migration got through and was allowed to flourish and burden our economy and culture
The government should stand up and not be pressured with its policy on assylum seekers,even though immigration has its place and serves a purpose for the economy the bottom line is if we are going to accept migrants it should be up to us to filter the best possible and control the numbers
I dont believe the people of australia would complain if the goverment continued its migrant policy as long as measures were in place to ensure we get the best the rest of the world has to offer and not just some third world countries problems that we will eventually have to deal with
Thx Shylock
P.s Everyone have a safe and happy Australia Day
P.p.s Do not criticise my grammar I did 3 unit english at Holroyd High school in Sydney's Western Suburbs
