k henry - aust. sustainable pop. is 15 million, page-37

That's interesting bacci because I am extremely anti economic rationalism: I believe the federal government could usefully take responsibility to try to make it easy for companies to get the labour they need as quickly as possible in boom times AND protect Australian workers all the time.

That also includes determining how many and what types of people are allowed into Australia and under what conditions.

Your saying "it is not the way of the world" is a total copout - seems to me you would rather whinge and whine about the way things "should" be.