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we all take a different track in life and end up where we are one way or another. ya can tell what a bloke’s like when ya meet him. if he’ an arsehole being an imagrant ain’t gunna change much. he’s still an arsehole. but if he’s a good bloke i’ll have beer with him no worries. we are all pretty lucky to live here at this time and age. i don’t care where ya come from as long as ya fit in and don’t get involved in criminal and other bad shit.
politics and religion ah ollie. they get people goin mate
AnonymousWow, what a difficult issue!
I love issues like this because I can always see both sides of the story and I wonder if I ever really had to make a binding decision in regards to, say, this issue what would I do.
Thankfully I don’t have to make that decision and hence I mitigate that responsibility by deferring it to the politicians that I vote for.
On one side I agree with Ollie because of the financial burden that it places Australians because of the increase in taxes that we have to pay to support them as well as the loss in jobs for other Australians because the refugees will work cheaper than union rates.
However on the other side if I ever came across a child who I knew that if they were returned to their country which would mean certain death or worse I would do everything in my power to stop that from happening. Like DanD says this is an example of hypocriticism.
I am not saying this to offend anyone I just don’t know if there is an easy answer.
Another thing that I wanted mention – did you know that during the global financial crisis that one of the Governments ways of reducing the impact on Australians was to increase the amount of immigrants that we allowed into Australia? This actually allowed organisations to employ workers who did actually work for less so that they could stay afloat. I know that doesn’t sound right because they have put Aussies out of a job however the organisation may have laid off say 8 Aussies in order to save the jobs of 300 Aussies.
Obviously however that can’t be a long term solution but for me it was interesting to know that it was one of their policies and the effect of it.
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Quote:Another thing that I wanted mention – did you know that during the global financial crisis that one of the Governments ways of reducing the impact on Australians was to increase the amount of immigrants that we allowed into Australia? This actually allowed organisations to employ workers who did actually work for less so that they could stay afloat. I know that doesn’t sound right because they have put Aussies out of a job however the organisation may have laid off say 8 Aussies in order to save the jobs of 300 Aussies.I also know the State Govt. still has an employment freeze on. No Gov depts are allowed to employ people to replace or fill new vacancies.
That screws me because I got moved, it now cost me an extra $200/week in extra travel time and fuel.
The immigrants deserve to work, fair enough, the gov does employ them indirectly as contract cleaners etc and says it wants to make all school kids finish at year 12 so they have a better chance, but they still have to pay off their uni debt sooner or later, assuming they dont get sick and have to rely on Medicare.How do you decide if someone is really a refugee deserving of a fate better than death if they are sent home, if they never had ID where they came from?
But until that decision is made they must be treated with some respect but also as if they are a terrorist trying to establish a new branch of “we hate infidels” in the great southern land.As for an Aussie ship picking up hitch hikers in Indonesian waters, simple, drop them off for the Indo’s to deal with, it’s their water after all, we did them a favour.
The Gov is such a tight arse lately it surprises me they dont send an invoice to Indonesia for the cost of having the ship out of its normal service for so long.No Bob, I did not vote for this Gov. I have a policy of not voting for the major parties as I think they are as bad as each other, the only way to keep them honest is to vote for independants or smaller parties with a policy that ‘promises’ what I actually value and need.
Last time I voted for the Shooters party, sounds radical but if you actually read their policies they are definately not radicals, they actually have good ideas about lots of things, like having the right to ride in the Watagans (not specifically).And you’re right about another thing Bob, I have to use rain water from my tank to keep the vegie patch going, only allowed to use town water for a total of 2hrs a day and only 2 days per week, and I cant even choose which days they are. (point 6)
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