Introducing a new immigration system name, new whys to get around and/or change rules to be seen as solving a complained home grown problem, inventing phrases of needing skilled labour to advance Australian interests. Seems the interests are more maintaining the delusion of good democracy government, while denying children an ability to think doubtful thoughts, repressing long term human behaviours to self-rationalise whether society is governed for the good of the nation's people or for the good of the people in controlling the nation's people, following some United Nations and/or US rich “Arthur” movie story' class, idea of managing world populations and world resources.

At the same time Australia was having Keating's 1990 to 1994 recession, several other western countries were having their own self-induced problems. Japan post First World War baby boom generation even though Japan wasn't experiencing a world war, were in the late 1980s enjoying post Second World War retirement savings wealth, so many Japanese visiting Queensland holiday resorts, streets being named in Japanese. Japanese bank share prices pushed the Nikkei up to 40,000... in 1990 thereabouts the Nikkei fell to 20,000, Queensland resorts lost all their rich Japanese spending tourists.
Wasn't till 1992 did Australia hear media stories about how Japanese bank managers were encouraging Japanese to invest savings in Japanese bank shares before bank shares crashed. Japanese CEOs seen crying while bowing while apologising to Japanese whom lost their money.

In around 1981 president Reagan introduced a new interest rate policy jacking up interest rates to reduce hyper inflation. During 1980s continued world high inflation was blamed on Reagan Star Wars research arguably impossible to believe technology, which was given credit for ending the cold war with the Soviet Union.

I speculate as Australia was experiencing Keating's early 1990s high interest rates, USA was also experiencing high interest rates after a 2 year low interest rate investment boom, triggered by the USA Dow Jones market crash of 1987.
In late 1994, a world share market boom began.

I speculate, countries boom busts are coordinated so sudden busts high percentage of unemployment provide gradual employment improvements leading to the next boom bubble bust, that busts are blamed on globalisation one dominate country, USA so big an economy, when Wall Street sneezes every other country catches a cold. 2007 US sub-prime mortgage scandal lead to Lemon Brothers bankruptcy 2008 GFC, mortgages said to be sold to many world wide credible investor/investment companies; retirement funds, Burnie Madoff, US$60 billion investment company in share market loses. Europe Euro using 2008 GFC to depress Greece; Italy; Spain; etc... holding down European interest rates ready for the next investment boom bubble bust' too lower interest rates for too longer period excuses.

Western Australia's mining boom bust excuse to hold eastern Australian states interest rates lower than RBA would desire, add global low interest rates, RBA desires to hold down Australian dollar, already sets up the next boom bubble bust excuses... whether bust comes quickly or over a long period.

Western Australian economy managed to survive before the mining boom began, a time iron ore prices were very low. My speculation that Western Australia is faking high unemployment, establishment's reduced firing employees, placing Western Australia in an employment depression, depressing property prices, state Liberal party faking a $10 billion debt, RBA used to lower interest rates as though all Australia was in a depression.

A true democracy government focused on short term popularity elections would not lower interests rates for a period encouraging low interest rates investment speculation as happened in late 1980s, to than in late 1989, raising interest rates to 20% for a considerable period, risking destroying Australian's saving wealth. Unless some foreign country influence UN and/or USA ruling class's formulated long turn plans, planned periodic depressions to reduce working class wealth.

I could speculate 1988-89 finance media were driving investment speculation, getting readers who weren't so much into risky speculation until trusted media speculated good long term safe better than bank interest term deposit rewards.

Paul Keating gets to play federal treasurer providing Keating takes responsibility for 20% interest rates.

Paul Keating's public argument with Bob Hawke over when Hawke passes the Labor Party leadership to Paul Keating, cuts off public speculation that democracy is faked, that leadership arguing with each other in media somewhat anecdotally prove the two main party characters are running a true governing political party.

All the bad busts planned years ahead of time, school children taught to believe the simplest of feel good is true assumptions, believe in mainstream media opinions are realistic rather than constant propaganda.

Several years ago, Alan Bond was seen on television with Bob Hawke, both as friendly as two friends could be. Hawke as prime minister put Bond in jail. Alan Bond should have hated Bob Hawke.

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Now that we have had time to digest Turnbull's pathetic 'we wanted you to be first to know' news about replacing 457 visas with something just the same, we can see that it is all just empty bulldust. Jobs that no one was taking up are gone, and the ones that should be going to Australians will still be taken by foreigners.

What have we done to deserve this idiot?

How about for every 457 visa employee, an employee has to put on an apprentice or hire a recently graduated engineer?

Labour pointed that fact out about the free movement clause before the election that saw Abbott lie his way to power. It was on the net for reading.