Alex Walsh
Hear, hear, and so say all of us.
David

Yes, from one point of view, what do we need any immigration for, except maybe the fruit- and veg-picking around the country, in the Kimberley and up on Adelaide River ? Forty-fifty years ago, the old Commonwealth Employment Service would cut off all Unemployment Benefits when seasonal work became available, so why not now ? What do we need to depend on Polynesians for ?

And all those medical and health workers from overseas ? Why can't Australians be doing those jobs ? Are they being blocked from doing the required courses at universities ?

Yes, if every country banned immigration and did all its own work, training up all its required professionals, sending out all its unskilled and semi-skilled population to wherever work had to be done - otherwise going without - I wonder what the world would be like ?

Fruit-picking ? Cleaning ? Getting skills after many years of sustained effort ? Nah. Better being a barista or games-developer or skateboarder.

Or what's on TV this afternoon ?

Joe

Unfortunately the corruption culture that hobbles the developing world's now a feature here.

Everybody repeat after me 'Ni hao!"

Good ...….. Now you're on your way to becoming an Australian.

We need a pause on all immigration except skills-based temporary migration. Who absolutely will need a two week minimum period in mandator quarantine, before being deployed, where their transferable skills can be deployed

Other than that, we can continue a popular trend and just outsource, dig holes in the ground and sell our meat and barley to our (how dare you) foreign Chinese masters!

All over the world automation is replacing humans in all manner of tasks some of them, white-collar!

And means a huge groundswell of the permanently unemployed/jobseeker beneficiaries?

We should import more of that category?

What we will need is to import missing and transferable technical skills, some of which will need to be deployed ASAP in new technical training schools!

Don't worry if they have no English given the clever Japanese have invented handheld devices that'll translate very nearly 50 or so odd languages!

Temporary has to mean just that! And to ensure it is, half or three-quarters of the salary entitlement has to be withheld and only paid with a trouble and issue free, repatriation. And may mean those same people will be front and centre, if we need more such skillsets?

Automation means vastly increased energy requirements! And if we are to survive, let alone compete, it has to be cheaper than coal!

Trying to get that message across or understood, makes herding cats easy as, by comparison! Ask Sally neighbours?

Or for her opinion on why this energy/cancer/unnecessary (greater than the annual road toll), annual deaths, scandal! Has never ever been exposed by her Four Corners? 20 or so expert witnesses, not enough Sally?

Don't bring in any more immigrants, as 1in 2 will, in their lifetime, be exposed to cancer? And where they are now, better able to access alpha particle isotope, miracle cancer cure, bismuth 213 The precursor, nuclear power as MSR thorium, is verboten here!

As is the clean safe cheap carbon-free energy we could have along with the jobs and economic development we could have but for tin-eared, intransigent, recalcitrant, ignorance, Sally!?
Alan B.

An immigration re-think is well overdue !

Not only that, a re-think on the bureaudroids in the Department is overdue also.