Loudmouth well lived in Bargo, Yanderra Yerinbool,dad worked on railway and we moved often
Mums dad [she had 12 other siblings] worked on construction of dams, Nepean Avon and one other can not name it Cordox?
Got to spend time at grand mums farm there even after we left
Good and bad memorys, those two kids found dead in that bridge pilon haunt me still
We, all of our family, learned to swim at the pot holes now called Pheasants nest
Ivan was no good, some brothers? no better

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Economic modelling by Deloitte Access Economics for Oxfam found that increasing Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program could have notable positive impacts on the broader economy. An increase in the humanitarian intake from 18,750 in 2019–2020 to 44,000 by 2022–2023 would:

• increase the size of the Australian economy by $37.7 billion in net present value terms2 over the next 50 years. On average, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) could be $4.9 billion greater annually (in $2017–20183) between 2018–2019 and 2067–2068;

• sustain on average an additional 35,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the Australian economy every year for the next 50 years; and

• increase demand for Australian goods and services by $18.2 billion4 in net present value terms.

As regards the “help thy neighbour” attitude of Australians, the Scanlon Foundation surveys of 2018 and 2017 found that :

• 81% of respondents indicated in 2018 that people were ‘willing to help their neighbours’, 83% in 2017;

• 74% agreed in 2018 that in the local area ‘people from different national or ethnic groups get on well together’, 76% in 2017

On Australia’s immigration intake, the Scanlon Foundation found 44% of the view that the intake was ‘too high’, 55% that it was ‘about right’ or ‘too low’. Asked to respond to the proposition that ‘multiculturalism has been good for Australia’, agreement in 2018 stood at 85%.

The report notes, however, that :

Immigration is a more complex issue for the Liberal National Coalition and for Labor, given the profile their support base and those they seek to attract. Among those who indicate that they would vote for the Coalition, a majority (54%-56%) consider that immigration is ‘too high,’ among Labor voters were in the range 36%-43%. For these mainstream parties there is a juggle, a challenge to balance their electoral appeal given the different elements of the population they seek to retain or attract.

Politicians are clearly out of step with the country’s economists, religious leaders and most ordinary citizens on the important question of the intake of refugees and humanitarian migrants in Australia.

That's our problem !

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Well put Banjo but can we base our whole future on constant growth
Will a day come when growth is not sustainable
A weekend story about politics highlighted post ww2 migrants no longer trust the major party's, even vote one nation
Once they voted Labor
Importing election victory seems impossible but if true remains wrong

Bringing the discussion closer to home, my personal experience with my next door neighbor who I didn't speak to for 7 years because he cut me off for the crime (as he saw it) of not letting him cut down a tree in my garden because it cast a shadow on one of his fruit trees. Try as I did I just couldn't raise any passion in his direction at all.

Banjo, do you think it is entirely possible that "Economic modelling by Deloitte Access Economics for Oxfam found" exactly what the organisation commissioning &* paying for the research wanted to be found. I may be cynical, but it is because of garbage "research" such as this.

There is no mention of the fact that the overall economy may not suffer too much because of excessive migration, but most of the individual citizens do suffer. The GDP per person is falling & increasingly rapidly. only a few elite benefit from high migration.

westozzy my post about much the same, was me v a very long term mates daughter
Truth is country or just the bloke over the fence truth often gets side tracked
That dog? hurt another person big time and in the end proved my point there are no bad dogs
But bad owners exist in huge numbers