Immigration has now effected the job availability for our younger people seeking summer jobs to help pay for further education by the government subsidizing business to hire them over others. this is not only wrong as they should be hired for ability and qualifications and not miss using tax money to secure their jobs!

We have laws to protect citizens of our country that need to be obeyed or the illegal criminals need to be deported! The laws are there for a reason and a certain party for the past 4 years broke those laws and now the new party has to fix the mess up from the past 4 years! Illegal Criminals are not welcome!!!!!!!!Come into the country legally and you usually are accepted!

More mass immigration under the current gov. Most aussies dont care. They only care abt their gov handouts and fkn childcare benefits. Useless turds! Edited 05-May-25 01:45am

Here we are again and the same labor morons get back into power. It proves one thing, that most aussies are so stupid. And they wonder why their standards of living have fallen so much in 3 years? It doesnt take a genius to figure out why. A poorly run country with mass immigration under those evil leftards. You reap what you sow morons! I hope all labor voters suffer now. Most of them are frm the lowest spectrum of education. Edited 05-May-25 01:46am

No but it's something we have to think about

Immigration can affect job markets in complex and often misunderstood ways. For some, especially in industries with high competition or limited opportunities, immigration may feel like it adds pressure to wages or job availability. In sectors like construction, hospitality, or IT, the influx of skilled or low-wage labor can change the dynamics of hiring and pay. However, immigration also brings substantial benefits—many immigrants fill labor shortages, start businesses, and contribute to economic growth, which in turn creates more jobs overall. For others, immigration may have no noticeable impact on their job or could even improve their work environment by introducing diverse perspectives and skills. Ultimately, the effect depends on the industry, location, and broader economic conditions.

Haha. Most immigrants arent highly qualified. They are from 3 world nations. Get real!Edited 12-Apr-25 21:31pm

Hardly.. Most immigrants are more qualified than me? Like really I can't milk a cow or goat?!(Now do You get it)

Here we go again …… get your facts straight people.

Things won't improve unless we vote stupid Labor out of office.

Yes its beyond disgusting that these people given hand outs and we have to jump through hoops and loose jobs for family and friends .

In NZ the Government keeps bringing in Immigrants and refugees. When they arrive they are given money, houses and vehicles, some are taught basic English and then put on benefits. More money than the unemployment benefit. a lot more money than retirees, and houses from the State House system, while we still have thousands of people on a waiting list for those same State Houses. There are hundreds of unoccupied state houses around the country that have been unoccupied for years and the Government won't spend the time or money to do them up properly and put families in them, even though the buildings are actually very sturdy structures. They just need good TLC. Now I have heard the Govt is intending to sell a whole lot of the state houses and build new ones. Where the devil are their priorities, and these homeless still live on the streets or in their cars with children, including at times, little babies, and through winter. Many Immigrants get jobs because many New Zealanders won't do the jobs, won't leave the cities, or can't pass a pre-employment drugs test. I am 75 and still working, because I need to, as the pension is inadequate to survive on, but have never been unemployed, had to pass drugs test for jobs, yet all the benefit receivers don't have to pass a drugs test to get their money. I know there are many genuine cases need assistance, but when is something going to be done about all the bludgers who just sit on their butts all day and make no attempt to get a job, do drugs and can't be bothered to work.Edited 27-Feb-25 11:01am

Immigrants are willing to be exploited with low wages and work in unsafe conditions. So yes, it does affect chances of getting a job because some of us have standards of working conditions that we will not negotiate on.

There is impact on immigration , but on the other hand we can't get any locals to work. Employers are looking all over for employees, but nobody wants to work.

No it haven't a Affect.my job but it affect the neighbors and neighborhood because they are stealing and Breaking in stuff.

Yes, for me it has. I work in the aged care sector and without immigration help there would not be enough carers to look after the elderly

It has affected some of my family in getting good jobs. It is a government and political lie that US citizens do not want to work or work at jobs "Immigrants" will work at. I know this first hand and upfront and it is one of the biggest lies out there. Immigrants are given favor over a lot of lower income pay jobs. However there are a lot of people who are citizens who will work for those wages too. Years ago now my husband was working for a wage that was barely keeping us afloat and applied for a janitor job. Those hiring knew us well as It was my home town and they told my husband we could not live on the wage they would pay which was $2 more an hour than he was getting paid. It would have given is what we needed to put savings aside and things for emergency and extra. They hired non citizen instead who was single without a family. We had four kids It was a bitter thing. We also as a family picked apples and pears and cherries when things were tight. Now they favor the immigrants over citizens most of the time. It is wrong and false that we as US citizens won't take such jobs many will and try to. They also are given housing and EBT cards, My granddaughter and husband had one such family living in an apartment below theirs and needed babysitters the family below turned out to be illegal and they got to know them pretty well. They did hire them to babysit when they needed to work or go to appointments. The immigrants spoke broken English and yet they had expensive phones and nice clothing. Eventually they were caught and deported but they lived in the same apartment complex as my granddaughter for nearly a year. Most the crimes we have in our area are committed by illegals the past 3 years murder, rape, theft of cars and other items and vandalism. A lot of them are young men and have guns and belong to gangs now. 25 years ago we did not have gangs in Spokane.

I'm sorry I don't work, but it has affected some peples jobs, because they work for a cheaper rate

We need to remove Labor from power. They keep increasing immigration.

All illegal Immigration should be stopped, the amount of illegals that our ABF and Navy catch is so good, they do great job, the Indonesian Government have a lot to answer for.

Switzerland to cap immigration. They want only 10 million population by 2050. Immigration will be very low. Edited 09-Nov-24 12:53pm

Now that DT is returning to the Whitehouse, lol, the illegal invaders will be in for a tough shock. If I were them, I'd would leave now, before they get rounded up and thrown out of the country. People in western nations are getting fed up with so many people or immigrants . Over 10 million of them in the USA. That is one reason biden/ Harris lost the election. Aus too has a big over immigration prob. Times are going to change here too eventually. Politicians will need to listen to the will of the people or they will suffer.

Immigration has crushed our community in devastating ways. It's got to be stopped. Not to mention the 2 (includes the one with husband) almost fatal random acts of serious violence that almost took my life the one by myself and mine and my husband's lives once as a couple. Our beautiful city has literally become a Mexican ghetto. I have several beautiful and contributing friends that are Hispanic, so there is some positive, but truly having had these life altering altercations have me saying that immigrants need to stay in their countries unless coming to America the lawful and legal way and I get to speak out bc this has touched my life and my communities lives so overtly. I know most other countries don't have open borders for me to arrive at their country and just let me move on in. I know this quite factually. But this will be an issue addressed by whichever new president takes office. It can no longer go on and our citizens and governments well know it. There has to be vetting and order of anyone wanting to immigrate here. Case closed. No on has walked in my shoes.

There should be no Aussies unemployed in Australia. But they allowed too many foreign people in and now Aus has rising unemployment and too few good jobs left. Population never keeps up with the unemployment issue.

On the news last night, website. A group of 50 young men took to the streets holding up signs in support of white surpremacy. They protested due to the fact the factory or meat works, is employing foreign labour, instead of the locals like them. Unfortunately, the evil media, and many locals are blaming them instead. What a sad country this has become! Putting jobs out for foreign born people instead. The company is foreign owned.

I don't know about NZ , but people are required to work or look for work in Australia. We import people that we don't need into Aus. Mostly Asians who use Aus as a place to take our jobs. Very few native born Aussies don't want to work. It's compulsory to look for work unless you have an excuse not to. I think it's an old myth that was around a couple of decades or more ago, that Aussies are too lazy to work. And won't do certain jobs. Not true, it's just that the scrupulous employers would rather employee a cheap Asian worker than a real Aussie.

Here in NZ while we rely on migrant workers that is largely because far too many able bodied Kiwis simply won’t do the work. Why? Largely because Work & Income NZ would rather pay perfectly able bodied, unencumbered people a weekly benefit than make them go out and work. Then before the week is up most of those same people complain about having no money/falling short. Migrant workers on the other hand come here to WORK, because unlike our own they know that back home there is no welfare safety net. If you don’t work you don’t eat.

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There would be more housing to go around if we had much less immigration. It needs to be an election issue.

There's a big myth that in western countries, like AUS, NZ, UK, USA, that because we accept larger migration that we need immigration? We only need some skilled immigration. Because, Aus is not training enough people for certain middle class and highly skilled jobs. That both accured due to successive governments not failing to train more workers for these jobs. Most jobs are in the personal service industrys. Nursing, doctors, nursing homes, etc. Very few are in manufacturing. Most immigrants come from 3 world nations and take working class jobs from able bodied Aussies. They often take less pay to get these jobs. Housing in Aus is now scarce. We don't have enough propertys. Soon we won't have enough everything thanks to the stupid and outdated idea of immigration. It makes a country poorer, not richer. Pull your head out of your FAT ARSE, DADA. Ever heard of patriotism? You would not have an inch of that on your thick olden head.

In Australia 90% of the population are either immigrants or children of immigrants. I would think USA is the same. It would be a different world if there were no immigrants.

But they are more of a burden in Australia now. Duh!

Jeffrey I will add to comments when I was a Apprentice only the immigrants would show me how to do the work then some Aussies would help me

I refuse to discuss immigration. I live in AZ where we get the full brunt of it.

That's actually a myth to claim that a aging population is important, and as a result we need immigration. We don't! If a country cannot sustain a population and provide enough houses and the health system is badly affected, jobs are becoming harder to get, then the population is too big. Every one should have access to a comfortable life, not just a percentage who are advantage. Immigration is a scourged on the western nations. It doesn't matter if one's ancestors immigrated long ago, and some were actually forced to immigrate. The skills are available and if not then you train the people. Immigration often makes a country poorer. During COVID there were more jobs, now with immigration increased, it's getting bad again. Not going to help young people at all.

I'm a house mum so no competition for that job... Anyway I think we can all agree that everyone has ancestors who have immigrated at some point in time. Humans have a pioneering spirit after all which is good for a lot of reasons. Immigration is necessary at some point in time due to a number of reasons. An example would be aging populations which is costly and leaves a skill shortage so you have to get people in to pay taxes to care for elderly and keep the economy running. Alternatively you could embrace the robots but personally I'd rather good jobs go to young deserving people who are willing to work hard.

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Prediction from ABC media today, unemployment set to rise possibly up to 5 percent by next year. Never enough jobs= population level. Australia is far to overpopulated to have enough jobs for everyone. Been the case for many decades. Gotten worse with population growth. The governments of the day are under the impression that it improves the economy. I'd like to know how?

It's happening!

yes competing with those who will work for peanuts makes it difficult

Loaded question.

yes indeed

Trump, if he gets back in, he said he will deport many tens of thousands of illegal invaders. The media calls them immigrants, but they aren't legal ones. He will need to grow that wall again and bigger. Deport them all, except those who committed serious crimes. They need jail for sometime then send them home. Biden wants to give them legal status to remain in America. What a sad joke!

Yep

Of course the labour party are claiming that they will reduce the immigration intake somewhat, but we're have seen no evidence that it's happening yet. And besides he won't lower it by much, typical albenese. He's useless!

So it was announced this week by the opposition leader, Dutton, that he will substantially reduce immigration if elected to office, in the next fed Australian election. A lot lower than the labour party is offering. Just hoping he gets in next year or when the next election is held.

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It starts with our politicians first.

Our local council is slowly run by immigration and they don't seem to know the code of conduct.

immigration???,,, yeah,, check my AVI,,,,,😏

Albenese needs to be sacked. He's lost control of our borders. How many more boats from Asia are coming here? Sack this incompetent prime minister.

I'm concerned that another foreign Asian has turned up again in Australia illegally. This time it was a rotten Chinese turn up in a boat. Deport these arseholes immediately, labour government. We never had this happen when Scot Morrison was in power. Labor had caused this! Disgrace!

Trump said... if he becomes president again that he will remove millions of illegal invaders that entered USA through the borders. It's injustice that Biden has allowed this to happen. He's a crook and a treasonous pig. He should be locked up in jail for allowing these people in. Something is very wrong in American politics now. He must be America's worse president ever.

I'm not kidding, but Australia is at serious risk of being HALF-ASIANISED by 2050. Especially if we keep allowing these hordes of immigrants, legal and illegal to Australia. We are not Asian and should not be accepting so many Asians. The goodie two shoe.... advocacy groups, are always defending Asian immigrants. Before the second WW we didn't have as many non whites coming to our shores. Obviously they love coming here as Australia must be like paradise to them. Their countries are over crowded and have less opportunitys than Australia . Australia should not be used like this. We must close the doors on most new migrants. Unemployment is going up and one reason is all the new migrants taking jobs. They should not get those jobs, only skilled migrants are needed, not low or unskilled ones. But many newer migrants take Australian low paid jobs. This isn't acceptable. Then the house prices and rentals going up and up. There is not much positivity to say about migrants . We might of needed them way back, but need less of them now. Those white traitors in Australia who support larger migrations should be jailed. So should the politicians who support this and encourage it. Future generations of kids growing up will not have much of a future if we keep growing at the pace we are now. Besides, if Al does cost us thousands of jobs one day, then migrants will have to stop coming as the jobs wont be there for many people. Stupid Australia!

The albenese government has lost control of its borders. Now it's allowed 2 boats full of Pakistan and Bangladesh people to land on our WA shores. This was all caused by the albenese government going very soft on refugees. Disgrace and disturbing.

YES. I IMMIGRATED AND GOT A JOB.

No ,but I am reading a lot of articles about some coming across the border that was criminals in their hometown.I read where they are concerned about terrorism and children being trafficking.I am here to tell you that the United States don't play around on crime.They will put them in jail here if they break the law. I think they do need to work for their keep and their is a labor law on wages here in the United States.And ya know their are jobs here that most don't want to work at .Send them to those jobs that noone else wants.I think the ones in prison need to work and earn their keep also and keep them busy.

I have no respect for the one that refuses to speak our language or they say I don't understand but they done it a dozen or more but the boss can speak clear

Non pas du tout

Every country was invaded at some point in history. So you cannot turn back the clock ever. But saying that, they need to reduce or even stop new migrants entering. They will eventually cost richer nations too much to keep up a decent economy.

Cherokee Indian heritage here, if you do not have native american blood in your veins, you are all immigrants, get off my land and go home,,,, as you sure have ruined mine,,, Edited 28-Jan-24 07:33am

There could be CIVIL WAR in America soon over illegal immigrants. It's been on the news in Australia and overseas. Texas is seeing an enormous amount of illegal immigrants and stupid Biden is doing nothing to stop it. They are flooding into America. Something needs to stop this or America will be swamped everywhere. This would not have happened under the TRUMP government. It will be interesting to see what happens next. 😵

We don't need immigration in Australia. We have now 27 million people. What we need is more skilled training for people so that we don't have to keep importing so many foreigners. The government cannot fund it all, so business needs to step up and train people for new jobs. Immigration is costly to any nation. It only benefits the migrants and not the wider population.Edited 27-Jan-24 16:32pm

Immigration is a matter of the heart based on its need for workers and new ideas to keep our society functioning. This has nothing to do with employment opportunities.

The reason immigrates are getting jobs is because they are willing to take anything, start at the bottom and work their way up. Today's children are privileged. They have been brought up in an educational system where they get a trophy for coming last because they are so special. Problem is the real world doesn't work that way. I have friends that have been unemployed for years, not because there are no jobs but because they are waiting for that "perfect" job where they skip the years of hard work and are already midway to the top without the effort.

I do fear for the heritage of our nation. Esp after all the baby boomers and X generations are gone. If the UK had not founded Aus,it would of eventually be taken over by another nation. China, Japan, or some other country. The aboriginal people would of been much worse off with a Asian nation. They probably would of all been wiped out by now. I doubt they would of survived under Chinese, Japanese rule. They should be thankful that it was the British who found Aus first.

If you are WHITE and from a European background, as most of us are, we should not be ashamed of our heritage. Those who are WHITE and refuse to accept their history are total morons. Why are you living in such a rich and advantageous country? If it wasn't for your ancestors you would not even be here. You take your country and family history for granted. You all should be ashamed of yourself for degrading your past. Our ancestors enriched our country. Worked hard to succeed. They made efforts to give their families and future generations a decent standard of living. It's something that most of us take for granted. We should be mighty proud of what they achieved. But many stupid millenniums don't want to acknowledge the achievement of what their long dead ancestors did. These people are truly dumb. They are a embarrassment to their ancestors. I doubt their ancestors would be proud of them if they could come back and see what they are like. How they turned out.

Today is Australia Day ! So well done to those who go out and celebrate it. I read that thousands of AUSSIES turned out to protest this day, on the 26 of January. Not all of them were aboriginal. Some are from the left and are just making a ant white statement. Funny! Many are white themselves. They seem to not want to acknowledge their own white, or European heritage. I find that to be very sad! The media and some politicians, esp from the labour, greens party, are often trying to insult our white ancestry. They often make it seem as if we should all be ashamed to be white. As for the indigenous communities, well they have a right to protest, but they take it too far. They seem to forget all the good things that whites have brought them. Education, housing, variety of foods, medical care. Jobs, welfare. But, are they ever grateful? Rarely it seems! They would still be living in backwards ways only for white people. They should give our white ancestors some slack Most of them had nothing whatsoever to do with racism or bad treatment towards aboriginal people. Those times were also more primitive than modern times. They didn't know as much and weren't able to access the technology and advantages we have to day. Yet, these people still judge those people as if it's modern times. It wasn't unusual to invade other countries back then, and further into history. It's just the way the world was back then. Right or wrong! You can never go back an right any perceived wrongs of the past . I guess they could of done a much better job than they did back then, but it just was the mentality of those times. The indigenous need to move on and improve their lives. They always live in the past. The convicts that were brought to Australia never had it easy either. Some were chained, even abused, killed as well. Forced to help build our great nation. What they helped build was something we should all be proud off. Those white people, and many are under 30 don't even appreciate what some of their ancestors went through. The sacrifices they had forced upon them. Forced to live in a very far away country. Away from family. Places they never got to see again. Sure, most committed crimes, but many of those were for minor ones, stealing a loaf of bread, or some clothes. Most were poor as there wasn't as much social support back in those days. These people were forced here against their will. So they had nothing to do with what happened to the aboriginal people. So why are they being blamed? It was the government of the day in the UK who made these decisions. Uneducated people often blame the wrong people. Just get over it! I

Cheap labour.

Australian government said tougher times ahead. How bad can it get?

I live in AZ so the immigration problem is huge here. It has never affected a job for me in any way. There is a problem with all the immigration now in that some places only want to hire those who speak Spanish. They have therefore come here and created their own jobs in a way, which now does affect potential employees.

Higher GDP is used as an excuse to import more migrants. Even when we don't really need them. You must consider that most immigrants are not highly educated nor skilled. Most make up families and refugees. They tend to get hired for the lower blue collar jobs mostly. So we are importing too many less advanced citizens into Australia. Once our population was mainly white people, now it seems that is more Asians these days. They just lack the skill base that many whites have . English language. I don't believe you should be allowed to bring in your ageing mother and father, your uncle, your many cousins. These people will probably never work or pay taxes ever in Australia. And when old enough they get the aged pension handed to them on a plate. Too easy to get free citizenship in my country. They need to earn it and give something back. They also should be young enough and healthy enough to work. No criminal history. Some bad immigrants have been returned to their home nations. Some are doing time in jail for various crimes. Australia can choose much better citizens from all over the world, but it falls often short on selecting good ones. I know of a few who are scum bags. They think the country owes them a living and they don't even know how to behave like good AUSSIES. We should demand better from those in charge at the time. They have lets us all down. Economically, it's been proven that more immigration doesn't benefit the economy or country. You wont hear that from most major politicians tho. Nor their suckhole and biased media mates. It benefits some businesses. But doesn't do much to make a country richer. It makes a country worse of long-term.

Too many immigrants coming in! They get more benefits and help than pensioners get, and, they haven’t paid taxes. There are a lot of ‘undesirables’ which I think, add to the crime rate! 😖

That's right! AUS needed more population due to the War WW3. But we just grow and grow and never slow down. It's only in about the last two decades that they have increased population substantially. Not only Aus, but all over the western world. It's the UNITED NATIONS who are encouraging more and more immigration. They want to destroy our western and native population.

No, but I am concerned of the number of people coming across the border illegally

Immigration has had an effect on all either directly or indirectly. The point is you can't sustain such an immigration push this time. The last big migration of the 50s and 60s was based on a need to ensure that we had sufficient resources to predominantly defend our shores. Those people came out of war torn Europe. New enterprises sprung up factories etc... remember we used to make things here. This migration push is based on a wealth strategy. If you've got cash you can come and setup a 2 dollar shop or a lotto agency. And buy property push up prices so that locals can't afford to buy a home anymore. A labour government ponzy scheme that is bound to backfire.Edited 02-Jan-24 06:47am

Immigration makes a richer country poorer. That's a fact! Now I know why Australia is becoming a poorer nation because the government cannot even find enough money for hospitals and schools and infrastructure. They even cut back on road funding this year. Why would the government struggle so much? How much are they spending on all these new and poor migrants? More migrants mean= more schools, hospitals, welfare, etc. Less jobs= more migrants. Australia doesn't even create enough jobs to match the labour employment needs. For Australia to keep being prosperous, we would need to have more government revenue every year. To match the migration intake. Where is all the money going to come from? Migration is a huge tax burden. Even if some of these migrants do get jobs, there are still many that never or hardly ever work. They use up to many resources of the government. Look after Australian born people first.

I'm beginning to hate Australia and what it's becoming. But, I realised that most of this is coming from overseas influence. Many voters are just plain stupid!

Labour are the masters of mind games in Australia. The state labour governments are no better.

I understand what you are saying about labour Robert. Many of my relatives voted labour and some still do. Unfortunately, the days of labour being good to working classes, or blue collar workers are over. My parents voted for them. Labour are not the good party of many years ago. They have changed.... to get votes they go after the wealthy voters, or the elite. The migrants. The minority and green voters. That is all labour cares about these days. Not struggling families, ordinary workers, aged pensioners. Just learn from it and tell your family and friends not to vote for scumbags.

😅If I had my way, I'd reduce the migration to only 50,000 per year. And most would be white, and skilled from the UK, and Europe. Only the best people would be let in. None of these dopes who cannot write proper English. Cannot speak proper English. And don't behave like Aussies or think the way we do. I'm sick of all these bleeding ❤️ morons who defend migrants. Even some of the leftwing morons who are obviously white. They are some of the most unintelligent people on earth, those that say migrants are good. Not anymore! In the olden days, after the major wars, 1 and 2, we lost a lot of men to those wars and we needed to build up the population again. Now there are no wars and the population keeps increasing every single year. But the economy doesn't, the money doesn't, the jobs dont. All migrants cost us money. Not many migrants are rich. Most are poor. Why should we keep helping them? Crazy!

It will be another 2 or so years, before we can vote albenese and labour out of office. It will be painful having to tolerate him for another year, and a half, or so. I need a headache tablet..I think !Edited 31-Dec-23 17:43pm

No it's made no difference to me as I'm retired but if the ALP had told us they were going to import 1.5 million people in such a short timeline I doubt they would have been elected personally i would not have voted for such an increase when you have vulnerable Australians living in cars and tents they have turned me off the ALP and I was a 55 year supporter of the party I feel they have lied to me and Australians on many subjects it's all about the power and helping Australia is probably close to 10th on ALP members list .I recently contacted my local member regarding the Gaza situation and thru an unelected mouth piece in his office was told he has no opinion well my opinion is you and your party wiĺl never get my vote again when your too scared of or don't want to let the public know your true thoughts and apparently not prepared to tell your views to us Edited 31-Dec-23 17:31pm

We aren't all the same people allin, so move on FFS.

immigration,,, people, we all live on the same rock, we don't need to worry about immigration, we need to just learn how to get along with each other,,,

Blame Biden for that. He's allowed that to happen.

I have no issue with people who want to come here legally. Its the over 11million who are not documented and that are here illegally.

Nope it hasn't affected me getting a job. I have worked with lots of immigrants and I tend to seek out jobs in my industry where I can work with co-workers who are immigrants. They bring interesting ideas and views.

No it hasn't as I am retired, however, I do feel that people who immigrate to Australia need to ensure that they align with Australian values...I do not care for the forums people have used in light of what happened on the steps of the Opera House in October.

Ever heard Asians speak on the phone Aris? Why do we often have to repeat our selves? They don't even understand what you say to them. Half the time and never listen. You cannot even understand them properly. I sometimes have to ask them to speak a bit slower as they don't know how to communicate well in English. Or they misunderstood your comments.

I disagree! There are less Asians in hi tech positions than Anglo people. And they still don't speak that well in English. Ever heard a Chinese speak English? Doesn't sound too good to my ears. They are not any smarter. Often less experienced than whites. Facts!

No because I don't work. But I can see how it will affect getting a job, getting rental accommodation, congestion on the roads and trying to keep living expenses down to a reasonable level. Too much immigration far too soon.

My ex boss loved immigrants because he could exploit them and steal their wages by not paying them what they were legally entitled to. The immigrants were fine people, my ex boss should have been sent to Mumbai or Central America or Southeast Asia etc to replace the fine people that moved here from there and thus rid this country of another worthless scumbag exploiting the system and enriching himself by thieving from the less fortunate.

Yeah, and Australian politicians have been lying to us for years. Even some overseas doctors are not really that well qualified to practice in Australia. Yet, how do they get through immigration and have visas handed to them so easily? I read that many migrants that are supposed to be skilled are actually not up to Australian standards. So who is making these false assumptions that these foreign people meet the qualifications? Are our immigration authorities that stupid or what? Only genuine people should be here . It's just an excuse by government to make out these are real skilled workers. Go back to the white Australia policy so we can get real and not insipid, fake skilled workers.Edited 30-Dec-23 20:28pm

Immigration in Australia is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme. Tradies for the building industry were needed so we accepted 250000 people and out of the 250000 we got 1100 carpenters and 250 plumbers. So what about the rest? Now that we have an extra 250000 people we need more tradies for the building industry but they are now saying we need people with higher qualifications. What, super chippies? I was talking to a nurse working at a children's practice and she told me about an immigrant couple who took a baby there that was so sick it was unable to hold it's head up or keep it's eyes open. It had been ill for a couple of days but they didn't know to go to a doctor. She said she felt sorry for them as they don't know about all sorts of things because they are immigrants. Yet these people are supposed to be "skilled". My daughter works in a doctors practice and tells me about the very sick immigrants who are coming here, some with life long serious health issues, but when it's time to pay they don't speak English. I'm tired of the crowded roads, the long hospital waits, the overcrowded schools as well as the housing shortage but the Government just keeps bringing more and more people in. It should stop until we get the infrastructure we desperately need.

No it has not.

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Jobless rates increasing in America. Bad times ahead under Biden and co. I'm surprised the average American doesn't start a riot of all the illegal immigrants. They are trying to ruin America but it starts at the top. The plan to replace most whites with foreign scum. Non whites.

Yes, immigration has made difference within my employment as a caregiver. There is a shortage of caregivers so any help with staff has been important to look after the increasing needs of those that need care.With increases in population, housing has become critically short and expensive