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Originally posted by Odin88
My brother is a coder, as are a number of his Australian friends. But regardless, your arguement is ridiculous. The primary reason for immigration is for the purposes of big business. They like ot have a fresh stockpile of low paid workers, so they can rake in an extra few million per year. They have been pushing John Howard to increase the intake for years, and although he gradually has, it has not been on a level they like.
And regardless, we should concentrate on fixing our problems at home, rather than importing foreigners to do the work for us. We are somewhat dependent on immigration, but the numbers could be vastly decreased (as 80% of Australia would like to see), rather than increased. Our natural resources such as water, etc are pushed to their limits as is, and importing more people is not the answer.
There are many things we need to do ourselves, in order to fully rid mass-immigration (not ALL immigration), but even without immigration as an issue they should be done. We need to make it more affordable for people to raise families, and have time off with their children (thankfully it is happening somewhat now), as well as fully rectifying the problems resulting from poor schooling (particularly in public schools of course).
Immigration is a big issue to many Australian's, noone can dismiss that. Whilst it is easy to simply say it is ignorant, racist people who want to reduce immigration, you really have to look at the real factors. Some of the highest anti-immigration voters are in highly 'multicultural' area's, whereas those who typically support multiculturalism the most are very disconnected from it. Politicians are afriad to touch on the immigration issue though, as the stigma of the White Australia Policy, has left White Australia too scared to say a word.
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Thats a little better ... some pretty good arguments and I agree with you on a lot of those points. You are so right when you say that we need to fix the system that is breeding a less skilled workforce ... or a skilled workforce that is moving overseas at the drop of a hat ;)
Didn't studies recently throughout the last 4-5 years point to the fact that Australia needed immigration to survive?
And for the record ... let me say I would NEVER hire an Australian programmer. They are inept, and lack the skills period. Our education system stinks ... I agree with you there.