IMO immigration should based on the country's long term needs;...

IMO immigration should based on the country's long term needs; not necessarily skills.
Just look at what is happening now because foreign students (allowed to work 20 hrs/week)
and backpackers (allowed to work for a year) has been snuffed out due to covid
......lower unemployment ....surprise, surprise?

Just look at the mass migrants we got from Europe immediately post WW2 without
skills screening (many had war skills like killing & demolition) but look at the next
generation of which I'm sure many on these threads are descendants.

IMO we simply should judge the longer term benefits of an immigrant comming
from 3rd world countries who, (unlike Aussie born) haven't had the opportunity
of free education and government subsidised training.

My neighbour who is a Specialist doctor proudly recalls his father coming here
with grade 6 education and an amazing will to work and now his son earns
$500K/year.

As a Psychiatrist he also marvels at how working class Aussies blame their
lot on immigrants nicking their jobs rather than their employers nicking the
the lions share of their labour and promoting excessive immigration rather
than investing in upskilling our own.

The majority of our home grown Uni graduates are women who specialise in areas other
than engineering, metallurgy , manufacturing will lead the way in directions our
future economic direction and unless the Government intervenes, we'll be
a mob of service providers/consumers with multinationals owning the rest.

IMO our greatest concern should be ownership of Aus; not the working stiffs!