@sandylanceley @naveenjrazik Depends on your perspective Sandy. Personally I find that Australia successfully integrating the largest number of migrants in the world is something to take great pride in.
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David Ashkanasy
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David Ashkanasy
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Human-centred designer. Love soccer, running, movement, saunas, ice baths, cultural context, poetry, history and social democratic values.
Melbourne, Australia Beigetreten Mayıs 2010
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@naveenjrazik Articles like this miss the cumulative effect to people forming their opinions around immigration
The post Covid surge or “catch up”, was just the final straw for many
Fact is we have the most international students per capita & most ppl born o/s per capita (developed countries
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“So what is the truth about migration? Is migration out of control? What happened to immigration numbers after the pandemic, and what are the real problems with the system?” afr.com/policy/economy…
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Free parking isn't free.
If you go to a university and parking is free, it's just included in your student fees. This also means students who don't own cars pay.
If you go to a hospital and the parking is free, it's also included in your healthcare insurance costs.
Eric Alper 🎧@ThatEricAlper
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The Norwegian example is illustrative. In the last few years, our wealth tax received massive media attention, described by media outlets as leading to an "exodus" of the wealthy.
But only ~1.7% of the ultra-wealthy actually left. Tax revenue boomed
Laura Nahmias@nahmias
At CUNY event with @nycmayor, economist Gabriel Zucman, who pioneered research on global tax havens, says the idea that increased income taxes on the wealthy leads to outmigration is largely a "myth"
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@taipan168 There were recent articles in the Japan presswherw the Japanese makers, especially Honda, are panicking. They realise where the Cjinese are and how far behind they are. Not just in models, but in production process and speed of new design development to production.
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@Mercfan3Mercfan @taipan168 Given market expectations and competition, think we can make a pretty strong assumption that it will fall inine with the wider market.
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@taipan168 Yes I believe so, but its still the achilles heel of many new entrants. Not to say legacy manufacturers have covered themselves in glory here.
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@arnie03 @taipan168 TBFthough, when at home my first meal is typically around 12:30.
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@arnie03 @taipan168 I'm with you - this is an expectation from my children if we're staying in a hotel overseas (not always the case).
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I don’t eat breakfast, but when I did, I never paid for the hotel breakfast. They’re expensive and you eat too much.
Either go to a local cafe which will cost half as much as the hotel, or find a supermarket and buy some breakfast foods.
smh.com.au/traveller/revi…
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@YoYoHoneySmith @taipan168 @mtmcmill Although it's likely a good number of children of programmers from India and Phillipines might we'll follow their parents path.
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@YoYoHoneySmith @taipan168 @mtmcmill I've spent most of my career in the industry. As I said, Australians have never shown a high level of enthusiasm for the career. Not when it was the boom career in the naughties, and certainly not now.
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@taipan168 @mtmcmill They also are highly likely to fill a key career in our country that Australians have never trained in numbers to meet the needs of a modern economy - namely IT engineers and connected skill sets.
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Angus Taylor stood up this week and told Australia its immigration system needs to discriminate based on values, that people from certain places are less likely to share what we stand for.
Somewhere in Menzies, a Chinese Australian family heard that and thought: he's talking about us.
They're probably right.
Here's the thing nobody is saying about Tuesday's announcement. We asked 2,000 voters who they blame for rising prices and interest rates. Forty per cent said politicians. Twenty per cent said CEOs. Six per cent said immigrants.
Even among One Nation voters, the people Taylor is performing for, 59% blame politicians. Their vote isn't an immigration grievance. It's institutional fury. And you cannot outdo One Nation on either grievance or immigration.
So what Taylor has actually done is design a policy that won't win the voters he's chasing, delivered in language that will cost him voters he desperately needs, in the seats that decide Australian elections, in the cities that have already punished the Coalition across two consecutive elections.
The demographic backdrop makes it worse. India is about to overtake England as Australia's largest overseas-born diaspora, likely confirmed in ABS data due this month. The median age of England-born Australians is 59.6. India-born: 35.8. One of those communities is the electoral future of metropolitan Australia. The other is not.
Chasing ghosts of the past whilst losing votes. Full piece below
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@mattjcan @AngusTaylorMP Hope you’re glad you your Lib mates have bought out all the racists and started to make more Australians feel less welcome in their own home.
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Yesterday, @AngusTaylorMP announced that an LNP Government would re-establish tough border controls.
When my Italian grandparents arrived here in the 1950s, they had to go through the wringer to be naturalised. They needed references from their employers and people of stature in the community, letters from local police constables, evidence that they were financially independent and that they had secure lodgings.
See just one of the many letters attached. Their application for citizenship runs to hundreds of pages.
The Inspector of Police in Townsville wrote about my nonno, Gaetano Zanella, "The applicant has a very good knowledge of the English language, and would experience no difficulty in working amongst and understanding English-speaking people ... he fully understands the rights and privileges of Australian citizenship."
If we could do it in the 1950s, why can't we do it today? Now, with AI and social media, we should be able to get a pretty good idea about whether an applicant shares our way of life.
Becoming an Australian should be the most exclusive club you can belong to. It should be tough to get in, and when you are in, we protect you like a mate.
The LNP will restore both tough standards and a welcoming attitude to all of those who meet these standards and become Aussies.
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But not just rail - they own everything around the line and around the stations, allowing for levels of investment and development governments can’t match. He decried that Western capitalist governments never seem to want the capitalist solution when it comes to PT.
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Or in his words, Australian and Western governments are all about state control when it comes to PT, when the most successful system in the world - is pure market led. Japan sets the conditions and policy environment, for private money to make massive investment into rail.
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I had the pleasure recently of sitting beside Prof Peter Newman on a flight, the key urban planner advocate behind the Perth rail revival. He said to me the main thing Australian governments of all strips got wrong with PT infrastructure, is that it is all government led.
Robert Colvile@rcolvile
The best rail network in the world is also the most competitive. Fascinating piece from @WorksInProgMag on Japan worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-b…
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Hopefully this is a temporary measure and behaviour change in society helps improve the way we move around our cities going forward.
Eddie Redcliffe@fictillius
The frequency of services on Sydney’s M1 metro rail line will be temporarily boosted from Monday to cater for demand, as more commuters leave their cars at home to catch trains due to the fuel crisis.
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@taipan168 Tel Aviv is amongst the best places in the world for food. Truly sensational. The political situation though is heartbreaking, and I say this as someone with family connect to the region that predate modern Israel by central.
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@mattjcan Isn’t this well only viable if crude oil prices remain elevated? Would that make it viable long term?
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It's great that the PM visited the Singaporean PM to pay for more FOREIGN oil.
But on his way home why doesn't the PM visit the Queensland Premier and work out how they can produce AUSTRALIAN oil from the Taroom trough?
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@PeterOB24979769 Libs closed down our car manufacturing & our last 5 fuel refineries. Regardless though political consensus across the Western world was towards neoliberalism for the last 40 years. 2019 election Shorten took a policy set to start dismantling it & was rejected by the voting public
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How come we go to Singapore, an island 50k by 20k, and beg for their assistance to keep an entire continent running?
It’s because Singapore has had stable conservative government since WW2.
We have had multiple left wing governments that have dismantled our economy and society.
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