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migrants forced to go bush!
This is the title and clip in the courier mail today ,about Mr Rudds solution for the skills shortage in rural areas.Anyone thinking of getting a visa ,do it sooner rather than later if its the beach lifestyle your after!!!lol,,(i have copied and pasted clips from the article as its long!)
ALMOST half of Australia's new migrants could be forced to settle in regional areas each year under a radical plan to ease the nation's skills shortage.
Struggling to find short-term solutions for the nation's skills crisis, the Rudd Government looks set to use migrants to help dying regional centres and townships unable to find workers.
About 140,000 migrants are granted entry into Australia each year.
Among the measures that could be considered by Immigration Minister Chris Evans is a proposal to force at least 45 per cent of migrants to reside in areas with a population below 350,000.
The Chifley Research Centre policy document warns that local government areas with large population declines include Mt Isa, in northwest Queensland, Whyalla in South Australia, and Ashburton and Coolgardie in Western Australia. It said current schemes to balance migrant distribution had failed.
"As you know, there has been a reaction from some in the Sydney area who are saying that there ought to be some sort of active discouragement of people moving to just the big cities and that we have got to find ways of moving them to areas in need."
Currently, some migrants are encouraged to live in regional areas under the Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme, which aims to help regional employers nominate skilled migrants to fill full-time vacancies for at least two years.
thank godness we have already applied i couldnt think of anything worse that to be told where you have to live, but i do also understand that the skills are needed else where....
And sun who you 2 tryin to kid, havent you got 2 typhones on the way just spoke to my brother in sunshine.....you take care Jo x
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It's an interesting idea but I suspect they would find that people would not opt for Oz if they tried to enforce the idea.....
2.5 years ago when I took Mum for her visa meds, I had just read an article by one of the Opposition (now Govt) supremos. I can't remember which one it was buthis thesis was that Oz currently has a population of just over 20 miliion and needs to increase that to 50 million people by 2050.
His theory was that if new migrants were forced to go and develop new communities from scract and/or revive dying townships, this could easily absorb the extra 30 million tax-paying new arrivals.
Mum's Panel Doctor is an Aussie so I mentioned the article to him. He said, "Not a chance. There is not enough water in Australia to support a population of 50 million."
This looks like it might be the Revised Version of the original theory!
I read the Courier article today too and it also said :
"The Rudd Government is now designing its migration intake for 2009-10, which is set to go to Cabinet in April.
A spokesman for Senator Evans yesterday refused to say whether the Government was considering the reforms. But in a senate estimates committee on immigration this month, Senator Evans said the Government was "keen to look at ways of encouraging people to move to regional areas where there are employment opportunities and demand for labour".
Fingers, legs and everything else crossed for good news in April.
