Society & Culture

Help Protect Australia (and New Zealand)?

Society & Culture

Posted by: mermaid

21st Oct 2009 11:50pm

I seem to recall critics labelling the campaign as irresponsible, fuelling prejudice and discrimination - damaging some of the values it claims to preserve or provide sufficient information on what people should be alerted for. Perhaps asking Australian their views would have supported any form of campaign regardless of gender or culture.


mysteron347
  • 6th Dec 2010 06:43pm

There is never going to be a debate on this matter because anyone who opposes immigration is instantly labelled a racist and a redneck and intolerant and shouted down.

I have nearly 40 years of IT experience, but have been effectively unemployed for 9 years. When a particular rare skill that I have was suddenly put onto the MODL (Migration Occupation Demands List) I asked the Labour minister who was offering those jobs since there had been no advertising of these positions in Australia for two years at the time.

The minister's response was to lecture me about how "these people fit in well with our society" with supporting statistics. There was no mention whatever of the companies who were in such desperate need of those skills that they had to import them.

A few weeks ago, I went to my "Job Network" member who responded that they couldn't do anything for me and that I was the third person that week with similar qualifications but who can't find a job.

Yet - look at Linkme. Page after page after page of "I'm in Bangla Desh/Bombay/Birmingham and I'm going to graduate in a few months time - looking for a job in Australia."

The recruitment agencies prefer to import these skills because they can exploit their candidates' desperation to obtain Permanent Residence in Australia. Then they're dumped on the welfare system and the next batch of recruits is imported. The government permits and even encourages this exploitation. The employers wonder why their systems don't work when they employ people with no experience because they're cheap and because those people are the only ones the recruiters will send.

I'm not against immigration - it's justified where we don't have skills. It's not justified when it's a money-making exercise on the part of the recruitment industry.

And "refugees" who have made their way to Indonesia are in a SAFE country - free from persecution and threats to their lives. They have no justification to try to use moral blackmail to enter Australia. There is a defined process, and they should follow that process. If they decide that they should be exempt from the law, what will happen next time they consider they are being persecuted?


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