Sorry individual, you have that totally wrong mate.

It is the drastic oversupply of building trades people that force the continual excessive migration onto us.'

Government has no idea how to employ this excess of trades people, other than to import migrants to build housing for. With out this increase in population tens of thousands in the home building industry, & as many again in the building supply industries would be out of work, with no prospect of any future employment.

I think many in politics are as unhappy with our high migrant & refugee intake as we are, but have the tiger by the tail, & can see they will be eaten if they let go. This is highlighted by the huge increase in hand out to builders in the increased home builders grants.

Perhaps some good can come from this coronavirus, if it downsizes both the utterly wasteful university sector, & the building industry.

Phil,

How do you expect to get the economy restarted if you do not bring in millions of cashed up Chinese from the PRC (which now includes HK)?

No Chinese coming any time soon

Why?

no planes ....

Hasbeen,
Over supply of Tradies ? You could have fooled me by the quality of workmanship I've seen over the years !
Anyhow, it's not about building more houses, it's about reinvigorating all mechanical manufacturing & servicing in Australia.
If this Govt relied on fewer experts & more pragmatists then would it not be a fantastic thing to build vehicles again here without the insanity of the electronic dependency but insane unreliability of imported cars ?
Just this morning I tried to buy a ¾" keyed shaft for a little experiment & I almost cried in frustration. Not a single outlet to be found on the net in Australia. I called Bearing shops in Cairns & Townsville & Brisbane & none I repeat None, had any. "We can sell you the keys but not the shaft" was the reply I got from all of them ! ?? It's like saying we can sell you a car but we can't supply the wheel nuts.
We need to reintroduce common sense & competency in favour of tertiary Degrees ! Same goes for Politicians !

Waverley,

Why do you think Soot and the boys are so eager to get the States to open their borders?

They need the internal borders open before they can open the external border in order to give the green light to the millions of cashed up Chinese migrants they need to flood the country with in order to get the economy restarted.

Hello OLO Workers & Peasants

As a new-fangled fawning fascist reader of China's glorious "Global Times" http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192262.shtml I am particularly heartened by OLO's own fossil, Peter West's, incisive:

"Brazil and the USA suffer worst, their leaders denying reality. US President Donald Trump, having called the virus a hoax and a plot engineered by his opponents, is planning large rallies again with no regard for the social distancing many of us are trying to live by in the time of the virus."

Which brings China to:

TRUMP'S TULSA TANTRUM: "The People Failed Me"

Trump's father, Frederick Christ Trump ( his real name ), once told his fuming son that Hitler, in the Berlin Bunker Blamed the German people for failing Hitler's vision - see http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm :

"The German people were about to learn the harshest lesson of all. The Führer's contempt for human life was not exclusive to the Slavic peoples or the Jews, but would soon be visited upon the Germans themselves, because of their inability to achieve the things he had set out for them."

"Throughout his life, Adolf Hitler had never been able to admit a single mistake or accept responsibility for any failure. And as the thousand-year Reich he founded teetered on the brink of collapse in early 1945, he blamed it on the weakness of the German people and a military organization riddled with timid, disloyal and incompetent officers." [remind anyone of Trump?]

"If only they had really listened to him and let themselves be inspired. If only they had possessed the same will and determination as him – certainly everything would have turned out differently...."

And now we have Trump's Tulsa Tantrum... http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-furious-underwhelming-crowd-tulsa-rally-n1231674

And to think in China's Gobi Desert http://sg.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/china-hopes-play-leading-role-220307940.html China's workers and nuclear peasants are making 2 MSR THORIUM REACTORS