Immigration Watch International (2): Yogis to be rushed into Australia ahead of tradies under draft policy

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Yogis to be rushed into Australia ahead of tradies under draft policy

Incredible. Leftists at work

The federal opposition and housing industry bodies have hit out at a draft policy that would see migrant yoga and martial arts instructors rushed into Australia ahead of some skilled construction workers.

Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) has released its draft core skills occupations list – essentially the types of workers that could be prioritised for temporary skilled visas.

According to the draft, JSA is confident that yoga and martial arts instructors, dog handlers and jewellery designers will be included on the priority list.

While some construction workers like carpenters and electricians are included on the provisional "on" list, others, such as plumbers, roof tilers and bricklayers are slated for further consideration.

That's despite Australia needing an extra 90,000 skilled tradespeople to meet the government's target of 1.2 newly built homes over the next five years.

That goal looks increasingly challenging with home approvals falling and the construction industry facing significant business pressures – which are driven in part by skilled labour shortages.

"All of the trades need to be on the definite list," Master Builders Australia chief executive Denita Wawn said.

"We can't understand why they weren't there in the first place.

"It is totally against the overwhelming evidence we have before us about our needs to house all Australians."

The opposition, which has pledged to drastically cut migration levels if it wins office at next year's federal election, has also hit out at the list.

"We have a housing crisis in this country because we cannot get houses built quickly enough," Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie said.

"And the dog handler, the martial arts specialists are not going to get this done."

JSA has made clear its draft list is "for consultation only" and is not its final advice to the government.

"It does not represent the final advice that Jobs and Skills Australia will provide to government, nor is it a decision of government," it states.

JSA's final list will be provided to the government later this year before Immigration Minister Andrew Giles decides on the official core skills occupations list.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/yogis-to-be-rushed-into-australia-ahead-of-tradies-under-draft-policy/ar-BB1nzYxU

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

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Immigration Watch International (2)

Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Yogis to be rushed into Australia ahead of tradies under draft policy

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