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Poisonous Population Politics

For the past several years prospective immigrants, 457 temporary work visas holders and international students have been targetted in Australia's "poisonous population politics" conducted in the mainstream media and politics.

In Australia, always prone to xenophobia like Britain is now via UKIP, the debate has revolved round immigration and supposed "runaway population growth", with demands for the Net Overseas Migration ...

Shock News! Dr. Bob Birrell “anti immigration researcher” of the Centre for Population & Urban Research at Monash University calls for less Temporary Visas, International Students and Immigrants (but British, Irish etc. Backpackers ok?) - http://bit.ly/T9EIhd


AUSTRALIA’S major immigration visa subclasses need to be culled to slash record high immigration because the growth of jobs has slowed “to a crawl” and migrants are exploiting the system, according to the Centre for ...

Australia savours A-League of Nations. “An extraordinarily diverse player base has a total of 56 ancestries represented in the A-League, the first ever multicultural audit of players has revealed…

…The audit measured a number of variables including ancestry, player place of birth, languages other than English spoken and those who have one or more parent born overseas…

Australia Racism International Education Immigration


So it turns out plenty of us are Dumb, Drunk and Racist. …The show was intended to pick up on a news article from last year that revealed Indian call centre workers were trained to believe Australians were “dumb, drunk and racist” – a stereotype reinforced by many in the media there. Our original intent was to go to India, pick up four locals and bring them back to Australia to show them we weren’t so bad after all. Unfortunately ...

Australian News Economic Outlook Skill Shortages Immigration Student Visa TravelGDP has increased annually at rate of 4.2% and unemployment remains steady at 5.1% although significant underemployment, while AUD remains strong, though sentiment of most Australians, government opposition and media remain negative with high levels of household debt. Property prices have started to decrease from highs and cities like Melbourne already down 10%+ in past year with more apartments coming onto the ...