Immigration?

[Platypus]

My proposal for immigration policy in Australia:

1. Drastically increase immigration of skilled workers and young families under 35, from countries in the first world

2. Encourage immigration from 'lower' countries like India, but only in young families under 35 again.

3. Fill UN appointed refugee quota

4. Give asylum seekers at least temporary Residence Visas

5. Allow false asylum seekers with jobs and families based in Australia to stay

6. Deport false asylum seekers without jobs or families

I think that basically fits my view. Australia can sustain another 30 million people, and to be truly competitive on the world stage we need another 10 million in the next twenty year, something that will not happen at current brith and immigration rates.

[Platypus]

If you think the UK is chockablock, there is always room for another pommie down here to bag whenever we cream you in cricket.

(how many americans can interpret that? )

[Platypus]

If you think the UK is chockablock, there is always room for another pommie down here to bag whenever we cream you in cricket.

(how many americans can interpret that? )

No Thanks! There's too many creepy crawlies & poisonous stuff in Oz! The spiders in England are big enough, I don't think I could cope with Tarantulas!

Turantulas are from the Amazon

I've lived here, in Melbourne, my whole life, and only once have I seen a large spider in this city.

In Sydney they have FunnelWebs though.

[Platypus]

What if a non-citizen had a slave who was also a non-citizen?