Echidna66

500,000 people in Tasmania..Empty national parks absolute paradise, and a job earning enough to survive without a mortgage..I would never live in a crowded,expensive place again.. Tassie is paradise..hope it stays that way..

Most of the asylum seekers who come here to Australia are economic migrants whether you like it or not..Most not all of them pay to come here..so where did they get the $10,000 from to come here in the first place. They are a drain on tax payers money, and as if there arent enough drains on tax payers money already..Most of them never fit in and have no interest in fitting in with people already living here, unless they are the same as them. Look at the satate of the UK now, with it hoards of immigrants..Dont want them here full stop and dont want to pay anything towards them full stop...

As far as 457 visas go..They are a joke..cafe manager?..are you serious?

UKOOA or OGUK offshore medicals are okay here in Australia..The OGUK is the new UKOOA apparently, but more or less the same...can use here in oz, and SE Asia.

Yes but the Govt doesnt want to defend its borders..It just makes out it does..

Asylum seeker intake - 0....457 visa intake - 0..That would be great...Maybe there would the be hope..

Or for a 457 visa holder residing overseas, getting paid overseas,but working in Australia on temporary contracts , no tax due what so ever...What a joke..

For all you asylum seeker supporters...If you havent noticed yet..unemployment in Australia is increasing rapidly, there are more and more Australian living on the streets-homeless, more and more Australians struggling financially, infrastructure struggling to keep up, cost of living exploding...So why on earth would anyone want more people here in Australia..especially economic migrants, most who cost a fortune to support..If they are not paying tax or working from the moment they arrive how are they of any benefit to anyone...?

Where do all your figures and percentages come from?? How do you know they are the truth?..You only have to arrive at Heathrow airport to see the reality of what has happened to the UK..

Yeah but one problem...Why isnt it fixed already..How is it so easy to get a 457 visa even if you dont live in Australia and then work here, leave and not pay any tax here...Scam,rort,corruption..It must be Australia..

Your obviously not from England and have not seen how England and its culture has been destroyed, by mass immigration.by mostly immigrants who dont mix and have no intention of mixing with people of their host country..

Since when can anyone with a brain believe a single word any Govt says..Most of them are economic migrants, and even if they arent who the hell wants Australia swamped with millions of humans from impoverished countries who will be given preferance for everything over us who are already here??

Couldnt agree more Le Petit Roi...Im sick to death of getting screwed by these filthy parasites....They know we are a push over, they know what they can get away with...They know we will do nothing, so they will continue to take,take and take..

Nothing to do with a security threat mate, but everything to do with people coming over here on mickey mouse 457 visas and not paying any tax whilst they are working in Australia..

I hope they boot out every single asylum seeker to cambodia or anywhere but here..I dont one one single cent of the tax I pay to go towards an asylum seeker..Enough of it goes to all the other wasters we have here...

I worked for a company who would bring in Indian and Singapore workers on 457 visas for short term contracts in WA...These workers paid no tax in their home countries and no tax in Australia either..Its a scam all of it...

Yes it is actually..My wife is Asian and has alot of Asian friends..they have had no problem at all getting into Australia with 457 visas and then PR..I have friends from the UK that are skilled and have had the fight of their life getting in....The Govt here is the same as the Govt in the UK, they despise their own people but love ethnic minorities..

Oh..but, but its the terrorists we should be worried about..terrorists being the Australian people according to the morons supposedly running this country... and Sammy 1 where did you get that info from???the govt?

The same as an average British person with a different accent..

Australia seems to be heading the same way as the Uk the place and chaos we are trying to escape.. [h=2]Broken Borders[/h]Thu, 2014-08-07 12:09 — Bandicoot While the media and political debates focus on cracking down on boat people, Fairfax media have exposed that rampant visa fraud is happening. It's a multifaceted yarn. Up to 9 in 10 skilled migrant visas are bogus. Militants are suspects in visa frauds. Afghan applicants 90% flawed! Rampant visa fraud and migration crime involving people flying into Australia are going unchecked while the government focuses on stopping boats, according to secret government files detailing entrenched Immigration Department failings. Leaked confidential departmental documents obtained by Fairfax Media reveal that Australia's national security is being compromised by wide-scale visa rorting and migration rackets operating with impunity. Internal documents reveal that despite repeated warnings, the department is failing to crackdown on wide-scale visa rorting. Australia's open borders are a threat to our national security, and can't be justified on any sound basis. While the immigration debate is anchored on asylum seekers, our open borders are allowing fraudsters to exploit the loopholes in our generous visa system with non-genuine "students", and bogus "skilled" migrants - at a time of record unemployment! There are bogus "skills shortages" that lure students to pay tens of thousands of dollars to study here, expecting a job and residency at the end - when the shortages don't exist! Thousands of foreign cooks and accountants being given visas despite an excess of local candidates. The whole model of Australia as an Immigration Nation is outdated, and there's no correlation between grass-roots reality, and the number and type of visas distributed. While there's a lot of media and political attention on a few ad hoc asylum seekers arriving by boats, the overwhelming majority of migrants are arriving by aeroplane, daily, enjoying anonymity and the lack of media attention. Asylum seekers, and our humanitarian intake of about 20,000 per year, hardly add to our immigration intake, or population growth at all, yet they confuse the public on who our immigrants really are! Refugees make up less than 5 per cent of Australia's annual population growth of around 400,000 people. This employment migration program and corrupt, especially considering the harsh crackdown on assumed "dole bludgers" who are failing to gain non-existent new jobs! Everyone knows it's going on. Immigration experts Dr Bob Birrell and Dr Ernest Healy have obtained fresh Australian Bureau of Statistics information showing that 380,000 arrivals to Australia since 2011 had found jobs. But over the same period, net job growth in Australia was only 400,000. Australia continues to grant skilled migration visas to thousands of foreign cooks and accountants despite an excess of local candidates suitable for those jobs. SMH> Call for migration rort crackdown as data reveals foreign workers snare net jobs growth Afghanistan and Somalia have a trade in passports. Investigators identified a scam of people using each other's passports, after being lost or stolen. A loophole in passports lets people come into the country twice, without leaving first! With all the sophistication of technology this is happening. A 2010 report reveals that immigration investigators had uncovered a Somali people-smuggling cell in Melbourne linked to terrorist suspect Hussein Hashi Farah, who "is believed to have links to the al-Qaeda offshoot al-Shabab". The leaked files revealed that tens of thousands of immigration fraudsters are living freely after being assisted by migration crime networks exploiting weaknesses in working, student, family and humanitarian visa programs, and corruption within the Department that allowes the fraud to happen. There are too many visas, flexibility and categories of immigration, and passports are not secure for all the tens of hundreds arriving each day at our airports. It's mayhem, and open-border chaos. The immigration Department is dysfunctional, and needs to be closed for investigation. The number of visas is excessive, and our system is clearly porous and unaccountable. The holes and flaws the system have been exploited. We've (almost) stopped the boats, but now it's time to stop the planes.

Yes we could do something about it...I mean we pay them to do what they do, dont we?..When you look at the morons we have running this country, the people could wipe them out, but will never happen as Xfactor and footy rules..they have us right where they want us..

Dont use any sunscreen and never have..Just cover up from the sun..Sunscreen does more harm than good with all the dangerous chemicals in them, and where do these chemicals go, through your skin into your bloodstream and then into your liver and other organs..would have to be mad to use them..

Our caring Australian Govt parasites really do love us...The only way is down for Australia..Very sad. Thanks to Australia's open border policies and headlong hurdling towards globalization, Australia could be swamped with millions of extra foreign workers over the next five years, according to a federal government agency. Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James made the prediction as she launched an investigation into alleged exploitation of people on working holiday visas. This is part of Abbott's plan of Australia being "open for business". It may be great for businesses, but not for our nation of people whose concerns transcend monetary gain and profits! It's estimated that there are more than one million foreign workers with visas in Australia, It's about 10% of our workforce. The unemployed will go through the charade of job seeking, but will come to a dead end as more flexible foreign workers beat them to the door! The number of overseas workers could rise to between 2.5 million and 3.5 million over the next five years, with an expected increase in vulnerable workers seeking help for job issues. The only way for Australian citizens is downhill - to mass deprivation and poverty! The "White Australia" policy was not just about skin colour - a relatively thin argument. Hard-working indentured labourers from the South Sea Islands of the Pacific (known as 'Kanakas') in northern Queensland caused factory workers in the south became vehemently opposed to all forms of immigration which might threaten their jobs. Many parliamentarians promoted economic arguments in support of the legislation: upholding labour practices, reducing the competition of coloured labour, maintaining wages and protecting white Australia’s standard of living. While the policy was steeped in racism, it did protect our wealth, our jobs and living standards from open-door mayhem! Now the guards have been flung open, and Australia is open to the detriment of our own population! There have been over 2000 calls for assistance from foreign workers in the past two years, of being underpaid, and exploited. If the age of job security, the sovereignty of our jobs and of our nation, is over, then it ought to be for our politicians too! They should be sourced globally, and paid on parity with third world rates. Herald sun: Work visa numbers tipped to rise by millions

They give 457 visas out to fruit pickers and farm hands down here in Tassie...seems unbelievably easy..

Didnt find it a big move, just drifted over here and still here, but may drift off again soon..who knows where