There is an opening for a bright young man with an entrepreneurial bent to manufacturing violins, as accompaniment to the slide of this Country with an increasing volume of it living in tents on the footpath.

Get ready for this to actually happen. It would be a hard guess from which side of politics these idiot self destructive schemes will originate.
Blind Freddy can see scams written all over this, as those with a blinkered view of reality on the ground, make decisions based on emotional self destruction, in total ignorance of them that will pay that “real cost” in homelessness and suppressed wages and living conditions, of those still left standing.

Shut the borders mate, that’s the way to go!

Dan.

Nonsense. Being charitable has nothing to do with migrants. We definitely do not need more migrants. For heaven's sake. We have just got the unemployment rate down to 4% because lazy politicians haven't been able to import hordes of people to keep wages down and house prices up.

"What should immigration overhaul then look like in Australia?"

Answer: no immigration, apart from that which can be demonstrated to be absolutely vital to Australia. And NO 'refugees', ever.

International students? Tax payer funded universities are not industries. They should educate locals, the children of the people paying for them.

Working visas? Back door immigration. There are still 4% of Australians not working. Plus, it seems, some retirees who would like to do some work without losing too many benefits.

This piece is typical of Hale's airy-fairy, all silly ideas and no responsibility claptrap.

This is lazy economics to create demand. Demand that results in gridlock, unaffordable housing and pockets of poverty! As for education? We need to stop leaving Aussies behind just to create space for well heeled foreigners!

The only suggestion with merit is the idea of guest labour to overcome temporary skill shortages, and could be used to also upskill our own. Labour shortages can be overcome to a degree by allowing pensioners to work and indeed add their experience and skill sets to the labour market.

Apart from that, we need to lower our energy costs substantially, so as to aid increased automation and value adding. (MSR thorium) Other factors we might consider are remote applications that allow us to access missing skills via online systems. And video conferencing as a substitute for travel/business/management upskilling?

And we need to end endemic poverty right here so as to increase flow on economic activity. And more so than we could with migration!

That said, we could increase our refugee intake and allow them to earn a living here as farm workers, so as to end the free rides many get courtesy of our hard pressed taxpayer, whose funds should be used to increase public housing and the infrastructure deficit instead! TBC.
Alan B.

ttbn and Dan, here, here and well said!
Alan B.

More migrants= more demand for housing we don't have! Some of which could become both available and more affordable if we outlawed foreign investment in the real estate residential market. And demanded those that had holdings here release them to the housing market or have them confiscated?

We don't need empty apartments etc., and our own reduced to living in roadside tents or their cars etc. We also need negative gearing reduced to five houses max per individual and exclusive to new houses only! This would release significant taxpayer funds for more public housing and infrastructure projects, like say new MSR thorium power station and rapid rail to reduce the commute to work and study!
Alan B.

EXACTLY Alan B.
- Housing, that's what I was going to comment

How about this moron start paying everyones rent?
A lot of people cant afford to buy anymore, we can't even afford to rent where we live anymore since all southerners moved up to QLD and double the cost of rent everywhere.
People up here now have the same stuff Victoria had down there, people offer 20% above whats asked just to secure what they want, and everyone else can go get stuffed, apparently.

- I had an answer for this, it was to build relocatable homes straight off production lines.
Elon Musk apparently lives in one.
It's not like we have a shortage of land.
http://youtu.be/04OVhR67hoE

He wants everyone else to have less and pay more for his feel-good ideas.

I also told you all how to fix things

Non-obligation - Double dole for full time work helping the government save money.
Why pay someone $600 a fortnight to do nothing
when you can pay $600 a week and get a full time worker

I also told you about having a full school curriculum online
1 - so any kid in the nation has access to the best education
2 - and it completely reduces the cost of such
- Think about how this would've helped during the pandemic.
they don't want this
Because the system works from kids in public schools growing up to be employees and kids in private schools growing up to be employers and academics and thats how the system works for the rich.
They need others to empty their bins.

The whole country's haddit.
Ran by idiots who care more about refugees and people with weird sexual preferences, than the rest of society.