@*kazumi* wrote:
Actually most people who arrive here by the boats are not low skilled and they were not broke either.
I agree that many of the refugees that come here are not low skilled. What I actually said in my post was that often their qualifications are not recognised in Australia. I personally know a refugee who was a doctor and worked in a uni training other medical proffesionals. Really nice guy and an asset to Australia, but he works the counter of my local servo as his qualifications are not recognised in Australia. The owner of the servo was employing all Australians three years ago, but they all got the sack at once and where replaced by refugees. I was told by one of the sacked employees that the boss was recieving government subsidies to employ the refugees.
To get to Indonesia and then pay for the boat journey they had to have money.. Few months back there was a story on SBS about 2 of the people who were sent to the USA under the deal. The young woman was an English speaking accountant, who had no trouble getting a job, and is doing pretty well. The man had a bit more difficult time of it, he owned an electronics store in one of those Syrian towns that was all but raised to the ground . But he also could communicate in English, and he got a job in a warehouse, and started training an forklift operator, saving to start business.
Many of the refugee kids who come here with no English catch up very quickly, and many excel at school, have no problem graduating from uni.
If anybody's kids have problem competing for unskilled jobs with Muslim with no language skills, then we really have a problem with our young people.
See above. The system is loaded against Australian residents in favor of refugees when the refugees wages are subsidised by the Australian tax payer.
By the way, this family Who have been found not to be genuine refugees lived in a country town, and many refugees would be only to happy to settle in the regional towns. Sounds nice in theory but it just aint happening. ...........Just ask the commuters and new home buyers in Melbourne and Sydney..........It is blatently obvious that migration policies have drastically distorted the housing and transport systems on the Eastern sea board to the extent that housing and commuting to work has become a major challenge for many existing Australian residents.
If there are jobs, they do not even need to be forced to stay there for number of years; once they settle they will not be moving to the big cities; just like when people arrived and spent some time in the migration camps, many the settled in the area.
The problem with farmers is that we were told for decades the climate is changing; we were warned that we will have longer droughts, more severe storms, and fires of such intensity we will not know how to fight and many farmers just dismissed the warnings. Giving money to them now will not do anything for long term solution. We were warned that if we do not take action it will cost us big, and it is starting to cost us big, yet out government as well as the the US government are still in denial.
And this load of dribble is based on what ????? You obviously have absolutely no knowledge of Australias farming systems.
If we take the sheep industry for starters, over the last 20 years Australian graziers in marginal areas have moved away from traditional Merinos in huge numbers to replace them with South African breeds such as Dorpers and Damaras. These breeds are much more drought hardy than traditional merinos and British breeds and the change has been a direct response to changing climatic conditions. Around 20% of my own flock is Dorper based. I run the ewes in near coast, wet country and transfer the lambs at 12 weeks of age to my remote semi arid farm where they grow out well on the dry feed.
The cattle industry has seen similar changes. Thirty years ago the vast majority of cattle where finished on grass. Now the majority, including most of the beef sold in our major supermarkets is finished in feedlots where cattle finishing is not dictateded by fluctuating seasons . Again a major industry shift in direct response to climate change.
The Australian grain industry has probably responded in the most dramatic way to climate change with farmers now using completely new farming systems compared to thirty years ago. Three decades ago, paddocks where fallowed ( cultivated and left bare ) for six months before crops where planted. Weeds where controlled with tillage, mechanically hoeing the young weeds from the ground. This constant disturbance led to soil erosion and fracturing of the soil structure resulting in regular dust storms as valuable top soil blew away in the wind.
Now most crops are sown with pin point accuracy using GPS computer steered tractors and zero tillage. Knife points cut a fine slit in the soil with the seed placed above the fertiliser and press wheels then close the soil back over, leaving a small furrow to collect rain and direct it on top of the seed. Computer steering allows farmers to place the seed between the standing rows of the past years crop stubble, shading the new seedlings from the hot sun. Straw from the back of grain harvesters is also now mulched and spread to further protect the ground and new seedlings.
New varieties of grain have been bred with a short growing season in response to dryer Spring seasons and their low crop height allows the plant to put its energy into the grain instead of growing a long stalk. Agronomists are now employed by most grain growers to advise on frost damage ( caused by climate change ). Frosted crops are now slashed and baled into hay, rather than growing on for grain. My family grow crops in very marginal country. The results in yields they are achieving now are often 30-50% BETTER than twenty to thirty years ago, with the crops often grown on half of the growing season rainfall of decades ago. Last year in severe drought my brother still harvested a financially viable crop on less than 100 mm. of growing season rainfall.
I appreciate you may have formed your views based on the tabloid type media which produces sensationalist stories often based on political hype, but it would be helpful if you are going to post on subjects such as Australian farmers response to climate change to do a little bit of research first.
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