ruawake check out the lists of postgraduate students enrolled at any university. You will find all PhD candidates are listed on a web page somewhere within each department or under their supervisors research interests.

ruawake check out the lists of postgraduate students enrolled at any university. You will find all PhD candidates are listed on a web page somewhere within each department or under their supervisors research interests.

see http://www.infocom.cqu.edu.au/Research/Students_and_Staff/Students/

So you can tell by their names that they are not Australian? Great deductive reasoning billie.

How do you know if any or all of them were born in Australia?

Rudd threw some very useful bones to small business. They are

- no increase in administrative red tape any new regulation will mean removal of an existing regulation

- faster Commonweath bill paying = the right to charge interest to the government on bills that are not paid within 30 days

- superannuation clearing house

- A standard disclosure form for financial services products

- turn Australia into a funds management hub for Asia, l halve the withholding tax on distributions from Australian managed funds to non-residents from 30 percent to 15 percent or compete with Luxembourg, Dublin, New York and Singapore

- re-establish an Asian languages and studies strategy for Australian schools.

As well as rolling out high speed broadband as previously announced.

ruawake see http://www.australianaustralia.com/page/Overseas_Students_May_Face_Tougher_Visa_Tests/373

http://www.hothousemedia.com/etm/etmbackissues/mayetm07/mayetm07news.htm or
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/01/28/1169919213448.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/english-skills-row-over-foreign-students/2007/01/28/1169919213448.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/12/18/1134840742437.html NB upto 30% of students in any course can pay full fees. Until recently Australian citizens couldn't take full fee places.

Janus-: "I actually think Rudds trade training ideas are very good but I dont think you can build a nation on them."

How then are you going to build the nation? All the planes will be grounded through lack of maintenance. The electricity will go off.
No fridges, air conditioning, computers, trams in Melbourne, and every thing else that requires electricity will be operating. Once the trains break down they will be left to rust where they stand with noone to maintain them.
When the toilets in schools and offices start to overflow there will be no plumbers to fix them. Transport trucks will breakdown with noone to fix them. Cars will rust in the streets. Even the mines that produce all those lovely money making things like coal etc., wont be able to operate without machinery.

I personally have known tradesmen who were constantly in demand by their neighbours and family to keep their homes and cars etc running so there is also a lot of voluntary work done by tradesmen at the community level to help the people around them.

It is the tradesmen and women who in a very real sense keep the society around them functioning. Even the army would be stranded without the tradesmen to keep them airborne and mobile.

Incidently if generators are needed to keep hospitals running when the electricity goes out who do you think will be needed to keep the generators running.

"Last night in his Budget reply, Mr Rudd announced that he would re-establish a strategy for Asian languages and studies in Australian schools, with a new program costing $65 million over four years.

But students who are already learning the tonal Asian languages, like Mandarin and Thai, say they're finding it very difficult. And those who do persevere say Australian employers see their skills as a novelty, not a necessity."

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1920973.htm

Simply having a second language does not equip one with the skills to engage with foreign business. Just because I can speak some Russian doesn't mean I am qualified for a position with Gazprom, Rosneft or Aeroflot.

On a side note, I must say that I am highly amused by that irascible crank Steel and his accusations that I don't like Asians simply because I am weary of Mr. Rudd's Sinophilia. Steel's economic ignorance is somewhat amusing also. As Australia's largest source of foreign investment, the United States is largely the reason why we are able to run such a large current account deficit. That's why if the U.S. sneezes, Australia catches a cold. There's no free lunch from China.