My Dear old Dad tells me that at one time it was compulsory for any company or business to have to employ one trainee if they had over five workers. Why did governments abandon this policy it really shows dreadful shortsightedness. Of course businesses would much prefer to employ someone thats been trained by someone else (overseas workers) and pocket extra profits. This is human nature to try and make as much money for yourself as possible.

Its also shortsightedness on the part of the Australian public at large who look down at tradesmen not understanding that it is they who really keep the wheels of industry running. Its the tradesmen that maintain the trains and planes and trams and buses and airconditioners etc and keep all the machines of industry and the electricity running. Otherwise there would just be RUSTING HULKS of trains and cars and buses everywhere that just stopped one day and wouldnt go again.

The Public Servants and Politicians and white collar pen pushers have perferred to ignore this in the past and grant themselves more status, pay and conditions believing they are more important to society then the tradesmen but in fact it is the other way around.

Sadly, it appears the only man capable of ending this high immigration madness has effectively acquiesced to the Howard Government's population growth doctrine.

According to Kevin Rudd: "On population, Labor recognises the importance of migration and fertility rates to sustain long-term economic growth given the acute nature of demographic change that will occur in the decades ahead."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21507065-7583,00.html

By parroting the Howard Government's fallacious arguments for population growth, Rudd's purported long-term vision for Australia is looking increasingly shallow. And this is coming from a Rudd supporter.

That is bad news indeed Oligarch, not that I expected anything different.

So there you go. Any hope of a Rudd government changing our national direction towards sustainability instead of rampantly away from it has evaporated.