Thinking of moving to Australia?
Apr 15th 2008, 7:28 am
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Re: Thinking of moving to Australia?
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Apr 15th 2008, 6:44 pm
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Apr 15th 2008, 6:45 pm
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Apr 15th 2008, 9:39 pm
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Re: Thinking of moving to Australia?
this thread still going
Apr 16th 2008, 10:35 pm
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Re: Thinking of moving to Australia?
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Apr 16th 2008, 11:19 pm
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Apr 17th 2008, 12:22 am
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Apr 26th 2008, 11:40 pm
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Re: Thinking of moving to Australia?
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Apr 26th 2008, 11:56 pm
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Re: Thinking of moving to Australia?
Hi Angry,
Quick question first up - why bother posting these concerns on this forum instead of going to you local member who is in a better position to raise your points to those who formulate the decision making process?
I was neither pro the last government or anti this one and neither had much to do with the reasons for the skills shortage. The last government has put in various schemes, training etc to address the shortage of skills and the current government is continuing with them. No government is to blame for that though, it is industry who in short sightedness and savings who lacked the foresight to keep up with new apprentices and enticements to keep people within their industries. Combine that with a more mobile workforce, growing infrastructure and any country will be facing the same problems.
Population growth does not affect the housing affordability. Population growth does drive development and thus housing prices, which is a good thing not a bad one. Finance problems are a personal thing and nothing to do with who is in government nor immigration. If a person cannot get finance that is to do with their situation. Immigration stimulates growth within the economy at the local and national level, which leads onto a more fiscal and robust state of affairs in areas other then the financial ones.
Housing prices are due to demand and supply, the same things that drive the stimulus for all our dealings. Are we to blame the immigrants because beer or the price of vegetables are rising because they are consuming more and the manufactures are inflating prices to keep up?
This is a very basic view and no where near explaining the myriad of factors involved in such a complex subject as economic growth and stimulus as affected by all the various factors and variables that go into it. No country has ever gone ahead by stopping immigration, just the opposite the most successful go ahead by not stifling immigration too much.
Ken
Quick question first up - why bother posting these concerns on this forum instead of going to you local member who is in a better position to raise your points to those who formulate the decision making process?
I was neither pro the last government or anti this one and neither had much to do with the reasons for the skills shortage. The last government has put in various schemes, training etc to address the shortage of skills and the current government is continuing with them. No government is to blame for that though, it is industry who in short sightedness and savings who lacked the foresight to keep up with new apprentices and enticements to keep people within their industries. Combine that with a more mobile workforce, growing infrastructure and any country will be facing the same problems.
Population growth does not affect the housing affordability. Population growth does drive development and thus housing prices, which is a good thing not a bad one. Finance problems are a personal thing and nothing to do with who is in government nor immigration. If a person cannot get finance that is to do with their situation. Immigration stimulates growth within the economy at the local and national level, which leads onto a more fiscal and robust state of affairs in areas other then the financial ones.
Housing prices are due to demand and supply, the same things that drive the stimulus for all our dealings. Are we to blame the immigrants because beer or the price of vegetables are rising because they are consuming more and the manufactures are inflating prices to keep up?
This is a very basic view and no where near explaining the myriad of factors involved in such a complex subject as economic growth and stimulus as affected by all the various factors and variables that go into it. No country has ever gone ahead by stopping immigration, just the opposite the most successful go ahead by not stifling immigration too much.
Ken
At least the immigrates are willing to work.
Apr 27th 2008, 12:38 am
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