This article is a spurt of juvenile nonsense.

Outcomes for workers is always negative with immigration; wherever it comes from, and under whatever visa disguise.

Firstly, they lack ethics. At least the work ethics applicable to Australians.
I worked on and off in itinerant work through many years in the bush.
Remember the wide comb dispute. That was another fight lost by Australians on the work front.

Workers in this country have been chewed up and spat out in ever larger doses, particularly since "dog" Howard took his union bashing mob on an upper class rampage against working conditions of the great unwashed.

If there was one thing standing alone Howard detested, it was a worker with rights.
Manipulating immigration and visas which accomodate the comfort zones of foreigners over and above the locals, Howard was onto it.
I was one, and not alone, very happy and highly amused seeing him wear a bullet proof vest.

Dan

Dan,

I started work in factories in the mid-sixties, mostly in bakeries. Often I was the only Australian-born worker on the floor. The foremen and supervisors were usually either Australian-born or British. The Italians and Greeks and Yugoslavs and Lebanese who I worked with were usually much harder workers than me, great people to work with.

I did some work at the Auckland annual show back in 1971, in a stall next to one featuring an British industrial nion-peeling machine. I asked the pommy bloke who did the work on the machines in Australia: women of course, Eyetalians, Greeks, Yugoslavs, Turks, Lebanese. Who did the work in Britain ? West Indians, South Asians, Africans. In NZ ? Polynesians, of course.

I wouldn't be surprised if such factory workers as there still are here are non-Australian-born - Africans or Filipinos/Filipinas, Vietnamese, Polynesian. Australians seem to have moved out of such work generations ago, either up into university and onto middle-class careers, or into cushier semi-working-class jobs - and making sure their kids did the same. It may have been some time since the bulk of the actual working-class were Australian-born.

Joe

David asserts as to our attack on immigrants coming to Australia.

Since the 50's (shortly after the 2nd World War) Australia assisted passage of migration to Australia.

So what did they do, they built our railways, dams, and many structures.

These immigrants brought to Australia a new culture of food and influence.
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They saw Australia as "the land of opportunity and growth", they were prepared to put in the "hard yacka".

There was NONE of the "Government handouts" - as seen today.

So - I ask what are "current" immigrants bringing to Australia today without the necessity of a "hand out".

Such a simple question - never answered.

Hi Saints,

Skills and effort.

Is that what you meant ?

Joe

Australia will need to start bringing in about 10 million cashed up Chinese migrants over the next 5 years and a million more each year thereafter in order for its economy to recover from the Wuhan Bat Soup Virus pandemic.

Now, everybody say after me ........ "Ni Hao!"

Hi Loudmouth2

Yep - but I guess our generation not in the "politically correct" realm/era of today, which means go "woke" you go "broke".

But, hey - who are we?

Cheers.