ttbn,

When I called your claims jaundiced it was in the context of you having completely ignored a vast body of data and facts because they didn't suit what you wanted to be true. The very opposite of intelligent. Given that context for the word, no I don't feel jaundiced.

An undisciplined society is a society going to the dogs.
Australia is on the verge of losing to out to runaway mayhem. We need a National service to arrest this snowballing degradation of our society.
The myth of Democracy & Socialism has been exposed to be merely a tool for free-loading, greed & crime & has now reached the point of unsustainability.
A National Service would rejuvenate the senses of responsibility & respect. We only need to look at history where we'll be heading if we just stand back & let the insipids dictate to us.
Give ALP/LNP a big scare so as to wake up what being a Government entails. We need the kind of party Don Chipp had in mind to keep the bastards honest before it got hijacked by smart enough to be parasitic but too stupid to be of use to society Academics.

Individual- National Service and Cadets are good ideas- it teaches a number of useful skills to citizens including leadership, discipline, resilience. The Scouts filled this role in the past- but appear to have become corrupted- though I'm a bit separated from this space. At least the LNP don't have family reunions as part of their policy- which brings unproductive people to Australia.

In this way "the LNP immigration policy is slightly better for Conservative / Traditionalists" than the ALP policy.

Yes Don Chipp is an interesting guy- his wife is still working hard I believe. I see immigration as the biggest issue affecting Australia- so any politician needs to have a strong stand here. I believe sadly that the "Australian Conservatives" (Cory Bernardi) are still advocating an immigration rate of net 100kpa more than "Sustainability Australia" net 60kpa though at least they're both much better than the major parties. Other parties such as "One Nation" have a zero net immigration policy.

Some like to paint Cory Bernardi as extreme but I see him as very mild with regards to what is required to address the problems with high immigration- that have developed since the Howard era and before.

Immigration policy is another way in which Communist forces attempt to disrupt society.

Canem malum,
I still shudder from hearing that this Govt is considering handing out the Visa application process to private contractors. Can you imagine what kind of society Australia will beome if they go ahead with that ?

Individual- I agree the prospect of private Visa processing is beyond appalling. But things are pretty appalling now- especially when people won't act.