Thanks atomou. I like being as blunt as a potato as you have noticed. I have high hopes for technology, and share your hope of it replacing menial tasks. I think that the driver for this will be higher wages. I'm reminded of cotton growers claiming that slaves were an economic necessity. No one says that today, though there are plenty of calls to import cheap labour to pick agricultural produce on the same grounds.
One problem of high immigration at present is the huge infrastructure costs that come with it. How much is this reducing the capacity to fund education? Whitlam towers above Johnny on education policy for me. I mean, cutting education opportunities for young Aussies, forcing universities to fund themselves with full fee paying foreign students, then pilfering skilled workers from the rest of the world. And Australia is a wealthier country than it was in the 1970s.
