Pericles

For goods and services free trade can work well. Australia would benefit greatly from it. But the reality is that Australian produce does not have free access to many markets. I dont believe that the movement of people across borders should be free though. There are many examples in Australian history where free market advocates were simply after cheap labour. The practice began in earnest when the supply of convict labour ceased. In fact, there were examples of prominent New South Welshmen undergoing remarkable transformations from outspoken racists to avid multiculturalists desirous of their very own community of cheap multicultural labour.

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Sorry, that should have cited Oligarch.

Migration to Australia must be stopped.
Finland,Norway or Sweden have developed their ecomonies on skills not immigration.
I have travelled to Lapland and have witnessed the number of armed troops guarding the Russian border to stop any would be immigrant.
We have a small population and great resourses.We can become the world showpiece for innovative technology.
Our government leaders labour and liberal have for the last thirty years been listening to the drug lords,as is witnessed by the closeness of drug barons to our West Australian and Victorian /Federal government leaderds.
Bob Hawke will be long remembered as the first leader to introduce the Work Choses.His deal to sack the Ansett pilots, so as to employ cheaper overseas pilots was the beginning of the end for intelligent young Australians.
Today young people have to compete on a level playing field with overseas students who get qualifications by sometimes paying their way.
Instances include Doctor death in Bunderberg and the many Institutes that attract overseas students who pay extra so they do not have to attend classes.The qualification is dubious and are taken by the many large companies who exploit these indiviuals,only to tell young Australian graduates that a lower rate of pay is offered as a pool of overseas born graduates justify the low pay rates.
No wonder so many Australian born graduates are earning real money overseas.
Nokia was developed by the Finns for the bernefit of the Finns.
Why Norwegian ships moving goods around the worlsd and not Australian.
If we think of Asia,Singapore has no immigration policy yet develops local people to head and run it's businesses.Cheap labor from Indonesia and Malaysia are only allowed to work in the factories not to hold managerial positions.
Wake up Australia.
We will soon be treated the same way poor whites are treated in South Africa.

My overall concern is that by accepting more people into this dry, low phosphorus, saline fighting dusty tired brown land, we are not only throwing our own potential sustainability out the door, we are encouraging population growth globally.

6.5 billion people and rising — and not all of them full blooded western "consumers" yet. When did we move from being "citizens" to mainly being referred to as "consumers"? When did life become more about the 4WD we own than the kids needing some form of transport? When did education shift from a walk down the road to the local community public school, to a showmanship drive in the immaculately painted 4WD to the "right sort of school?" If we get peak oil wrong, some of those poorer countries people are fleeing from today may look attractive in years to come.

Stop the present system of immigration. If people in the Pacific islands need help, we can give it without bringing them here. Far better to help people stay in their home countries than overcrowd this dry nation.
We have a large untrained,uneducated number of youth. Why import people when our own are jobless and unschooled?
The Aboriginal and white Australian young who have no prospect of employment is disgraceful. Concentrate on them for their benefit and Australia's.