Megalania

“Give Me Your Highly Skilled�, Tom Skotnicki, Business Review Weekly, 2003 April 24 – 30 pg 18 – 20.

Excerpts:

Business is the big winner. About one in four new entrants to the labour Markey comes from overseas, either through immigration of temporary work visas.

Skilled migrants now represent 60% of the non-humanitarian migration program, up from 29% in 1995-96. … an increase in non-humanitarian migration from just 67,100 in 1997-98 to the current levels of up to 116,500.

… the emphasis on skilled migrants is part of a long-held belief that migration should have a strong economic rationale.

… the skilled-migrants program will have a large positive effect on the federal budget over the next 20 years. .. over the past 10 years, there has been an additional [ $19,400 in tax revenue for each independent skilled migrant per year].

… about 80% of the net gain [ of 29,380 2001-02 ] was among managers and professionals.

The single biggest professional category was accountants (6.7%)…

The survey also found that after 18 months, migrants that arrived between September 1999 and August 2000 earned wages that were 50% higher (in real terms) than migrants who arrived in 1993-95, …

One of the federal ministers apparently most impressed has been the Treasurer… Peter Costello. The benefit of migration, particularly skilled migration, is that it also increases the gross domestic product (GDP) per person, because most migrants are of working age.

Costello’s view seems to contrast with that of other ministers, including the Prime Minister, who has been wary of high rates of immigration.

And, since July 2001, overseas graduates from Australian institutions no longer have to leave the country to apple for migration. …

Ruddock [ Minister for Immigration …] says Australia leads the world in meeting targets for skilled immigration, even though it has tightened the qualifications for entry. Other countries, such as Canada, NZ and Germany, have all failed or had difficulties meeting their targets. … “Approximately half those entering through the skills stream have Australian qualifications, …

The higher requirements for skilled migrants will make it far more difficult for siblings to gain entry, … Most parents are also unlikely to obtain entry, with the allocation of only 1,000 places, unless their children are prepared to guarantee that their parents will not be a burden on the welfare system for at least 10 years, and are prepared to pay $25,000 towards their health costs. Even spouses must have far more rigorous checks than before.

… along with a large increase in the number of people working in Australia on temporary visas, could be a sign of an increasingly mobile labour force, …

… Business Council of Australia … believes the migration program should be lifted to 140,000 in the near term and 170,000 over the next 10 years.

Recent opinion polls suggest … people who believe Australia takes too many migrants have fallen from a peak of 70% in 1994 to 44% in 2001.

… 19% of people supported higher immigration, compared with only 9% in 1991. More importantly, almost three-quarters believed that immigration was good for the economy and only 10% saw it as a threat to their jobs.

Business might want further increases in migration to increase the labour pool and to create a larger domestic market for its goods and services. But the Government is all too aware of the political sensitivity of high rates of migration.

[ No mention of ecological sustainability ]

pommie bastard

Just a small point when are these highly skilled coming not seen many arrive yet , it all comes down to mug punters who will buy into the homes market .
The price of land and homes is out stripping wages and will do as long as immigrants are given an open door to come from richer countries , I see if you want your family here it can be done at a price how novel.
The country is full of middle men who live off each other everything is sold on with a mark up , to feed this land of fools it requires a top up of people with wealth earned overseas .
Interesting about the overseas graduates who will be given an easier entry , most are from Asia that will colour up the place its getting like little China now.

Megalania

Thanks for alerting the punters, you will be spared from the compost heap for a little while yet, provided your output remains more worthy than your fertilizer value.

I often wonder why these oil fueled creatures as so easy to persuade to come to live on top of each other in tall buildings. I hear they can even be persuaded to live on stuff called Quorn, apparently fungus grown in dark vats of glucose. So gullible they can not even grow it them selves but must torture other people for money to give to the few with the secret knowledge of how to grow it. Still, if they overpopulate so rapidly that they overflow their homes, what can you expect.

pommie bastard

My soul is worth saving then , that is good news praise be to the true blue.
What has always seemed strange is that a country so big as Australia can be made to seem small because of the pressure of people to live together in suburbian waste lands .
The capital cities are fast becoming urbian jungles not the kind of place thats spoken of on the PR handouts.

Megalania

For many years the truth about Australia was freely broadcast: A vast desert with a few transitory damp spots where plants and animals from an Antarctic Era clung stoically to life. This image successfully held most at bay.

Then the Nipponese broke the silence with a blood curdling yell "Bonsai"! Some bright spark, probably a Pommie Bastard Pretender after a Knighthood, retorted "Populate or Perish" in an alarmed and commanding voice. This threw the normally placid folk into a spin which has been turning out "Populate or Perish" bull ever since.

Even more unfortunately, the bull has attracted those mentally feeble types who are unable to grow their own food. The result is that all these incapables have had to be housed in high density shelters where food can be brought to them.

Yet more unfortunately is that the later even more feeble types have even lost the ability to prepare what food is brought to them and communal food preparation and eating shelters have had to be provided.

I can only surmise that eventually these ever more feeble types will have to be permanently connected to automated feeding machines.

Florida_03

But this is it...and you know it...this is our destiny.

And it has been true forever...a constant flux...towards a steady state...the rest is just human gluttony, ambition, sloth, avarice, pride, wrath and envy...yep that's seven...the seven rules of Government...

Megalania

I must admit to having been on a saline drip once but there was no added sugar!

Florida_03

I'm sure the CEO of my organisation is merely a liver in a bucket of electrolyte wired to the company intranet.

Maybe the future is already here...no rogues allowed..eighth rule of Government...