JackTheLad

I don't know if any of you have seen the latest aussie government idea

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...56-952,00.html

So watch out Mount Isa, Towoomba, Geelong, and Cairns(?)

JTL

Shakmaty

That'd be a handy workforce for the Uranium mine in Broken Hill

JackTheLad

I don't mean to hijack my own thread, but I only discovered last week that BHP Billiton, originaly stood for Broken Hill Proprietary , and then they bought Billiton.

Some poor guy bought a 1/6 share in Broken Hill back in the 1890s, for 40 pounds, and watched it go up to 60 pounds, and sold it for the handsome profit of 20 pounds in a few months. Apparently , if he had held on to his share it would be worth billions of pounds now.

He would be dead as well obviously.

JTL

Shakmaty

Hindsight is a great thing, but if you've ever been to Broken Hill you probably know why he thought making 20 pounds was a good thing

wanderingwombat

Actually all QLD cities with the exception of the Gold Coast, Brisbane & Sunshine Coast have a population of less than 350,000.

As sad as it is, for a lot of the Brisbanites that I have to deal with, the Pine River bridge is the edge of their known world......

WW

Hutch

Sounds like an excellent idea to me.

Bix

Tis something I've commented on a few times.

With the major cities bulging at the seams it has to happen sometime.

It's logical.
It's sensible.

But the government will have to be proactive in enticing businesses to "spread".

Amazulu

It's a ridiculous idea - typical socialist bullshit of government over-
interfering in peoples lives.

Let migrants live where they want - if they don't then migrants will go elsewhere. Encouage business to move to these areas. If they pay well enough, people will move there.

Bix

What is ridiculous is allowing the major cities to grow out of all proportion to the environments they are set in.
It's creating concentrations of the population that is not sustainable. Infrastructure will not cope.
Farther down the road that could manifest in civil disrest.

We agree the prime factor is location of business, but I don't see why immigration policy shouldn't work hand in hand with that to help it along.

Amazulu

I would not accept the government telling me where to live - migrant or not. Would you? Agree that the infrastructure needs to be in place to allow increase on population - Australia is a rich country and can afford to do this.

People will live where they want to live, despite what the government might think.

wmoore

Which means there's no danger of any government implementing it

Bix

Yes, I already did

wmoore

I'm sure it wouldn't be a case of seeing people right through the visa process and then DIAC says "oh and by the way, you have to live in Woop Woop". It will be part of the process and I'm sure that these 'regional' visas will target those wannabe immigrants who don't make the points tally for Skilled Independent, as happens now.

That being the case, you either accept the visa conditions or don't bother moving.