From the Article;

'estimated deficit of more than 200,000 jobs'

From the Australian Bureau of Statistics

June 2010 Unemployment Rate : 5.2% / 603,400

Am I missing something here? Why do we need any immigrants to be Cooks and Aged Care Workers?

Also from the article;

'talk of cracking down on fraud, and restoring integrity to the immigration system does not help matters'

Is the author for real? Is he suggesting Fraud and a lack of integrity in the immigration system are good things?!!?

When is OLO going to stop printing this leftist, self-hating non-sense. The Australian immigration system is the envy of the western world.

Peter, does not Malaysia and other Asian countries have racial criteria for work and education places? It is bit rich to make simplistic comparisons between multicultural Australia with the rule of law for everyone, albeit that some small elements of racism may exist here (where does it not?).

Also, could you dig a bit deeper to display the many surveys of international students that still rank Australia highly as a destination.

I,for one, believe that readers should be told all the sides of a particular argument pointing to so-called Australian racism.

Of course we should realise the good doctor has a UN axe to grind. This should make all Ozzies very wary of any suggestions he may make. They will definitely not be in our interests.

Then we know he is working in Asia, so it is probable that he favors that part of the world, although he could be there "just for the money".

Then he suggests we should be open to Asian migration, particularly by those with higher education. What a surprise. He wouldn't work in Asian higher education, would he?

This is very much against our interests. We all ready have more than enough Asian immigrants with higher education in our academia, & our public institutions. These people come from the home of nepotism, & if we continue down this line, we will find ourselves, like the UK, with quotas for different races, in public enterprises. It's only a short step to favouritism as many complain of, in the UK.

All this in the name of multiculturalism, where racist attitudes flourish, as long as they are anti the host population.

It's time we told our universities to stop trying to be businesses, & concentrate in training our own people, not chase the holy dollar in foreign students.

Meanwhile be very careful of greeks bearing gifts, & United Nations operators, out to establish one world government, by the back door, as they know we won't let it in the front door.

Personally I could not give a stuff about how others view us, The idiotic left wing media will continue to loathe all that is good about Australia and paint everyone who disagrees with their warped worldview as rednecks or naive. The numerous friends I have from different countries speaks far more than the idiotic left who are to blind to see that their 'non racist' views have led to multitudes being drowned and yet they still claim the mortgage on compassion. I would rather be a racist and see people given a fair go than these fools who are totally blinded by their own dogmas. Watching the judge on Q & A last night just confirmed how illogical and embarrassing our so called 'elite' are with their totally contradictory and closed minded views. They even express them with a tear in their eye. What a joke! Most Aussies will still befriend and embrace many from different lands. It won't stop the majority who have a little common sense realizing that we need some sort of order in order to control our out of control borders. False idiotic crocodile tears from the left just makes us look totally gullible. I prefer to be called a redneck by fools than gullible by those with commonsense.

Immigration to Australia is a long and complicated procedure where huge wads of documentation, testing, etc are required. A colleague of mine (white, anglo-saxon protestant) said it took years, and was as much fun as rectal surgery. DIMA made it perfectly clear that even as a qualified experienced professional, it was a huge privilege to come to Australia and that he deserved their disdain and contempt as a non Australian.

I can very easily see why this attitude could be construed as racism, as the individual is guaranteed to feel victimised, but would personally like to assure prospective immigrants that the disdain and contempt is equal across all skin colours.

"Many Australians would be shocked that Australia is still seen as a racist nation."

No they would not. Self-hating white Australian renegades are continually saying that Australia is a racist country, as are minorities living here with out 'racism'.

If only all the illegals and immigrants coming here would believe that we are racist, and stay well clear of Australia