There are more than 695,000 unemployed people in Australia 4.5%. But, instead of putting these people to work - training them if necessary - the government takes the easy road, and changes the face of Australia forever. Even if the unemployed are happy to bludge, they still pay GST towards government madcap spending.

Singapore? The last time I was in Singapore, I was told that “we don't tolerate lazy bums here”. Singapore has guest workers. And only 1 in 4 Singaporeans believe that workers need to be imported. And 60% of guest workers don't have the benefits of locals. Nor are they trusted by locals.

Australia and Singapore are chalk and cheese.

The Singaporean government and its laws make One Nation's proposals look Utopian.

Lee Kuan Lew's prediction that Australians would become the poor white trash of Asia have come true, under the uniparty, but more so now under the lying Albanese Socialist regime.

Indians? People who read outside the MSM might have seen that people are India's biggest export. Good for India with its huge population: bad for Australia.

The nonsense about bum-wiping by Indians is just another scare tactic for the burgeoning old age “care” industry that has more ads on TV than Coles, Woolworths and Aldi combined. In the past, little old ladies in their 90s managed on their own, in their own homes, to the day they died.

Australians are not “demanding more public services” - they are being ruthlessly forced into rip-off private services, heavily subsidised by taxpayers. NDIS, for one example, would go down as a crime group in Singapore. Never mind all the "care" businesses.

The claim that “most Australians rightfully continue to embrace skilled immigration from a number of Asian sources” is a lie. 64% what immigration cut, with 79% wanting it below 100,000 per year.

With nearly 700,000 unemployed in Australia, and the infrastructure and housing crisis, immigration should be zero.

ttbn, I don't see our foreign labour needs as having easy solutions.

I never said Australia did not want cuts to foreign labour numbers; I merely said that they support foreign workers coming here and helping the Australian economy.

Most Australians are not threatened by greater ethnic diversity, albeit i also share a concern about the number of Indians arriving just as some in the Indian community do.

I agree that numbers should be cut.

But my piece reflects a view that the issue of foreign workers is complex, certainly much more so than what Pauline Hanson suggests.

Sure there are many Australians out of work, but there are also many Australians who do not want to work in many occupations.

ttbn, I also would be appalled if the number of foreign workers exceeds domestic workers in any occupation, and I should have made that clearer in my piece beyond explaining why Labor and the Coalition governments have relied more and more on foreign doctors.

What is happening with regard to GPs is worrying.

I note that Singapore also has quotas for foreign workers in different industry sectors.