tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post6024652275242482757..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: The Balt ReportBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-52916893178088304092011-12-26T15:08:55.375+11:002011-12-26T15:08:55.375+11:00It's a bit late but I saw this post at Margina...It's a bit late but I saw this post at Marginal Revoloution - http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/12/immigrants-welfare-reform-and-the-u-s-safety-net.html it does give some support to the idea that welfare and migrants are a bad combination.sfwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592447707671698816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-77381779256711612582011-12-24T11:14:46.968+11:002011-12-24T11:14:46.968+11:00Josephine Piper of Miranda,writing in the SMH Lett...Josephine Piper of Miranda,writing in the SMH Letters page today,bemoans the fact that while both Political parties(I think she's probably referring to the Greens and their junior Coalition partner,Labor) squabble over "desperate boat people" there is no fuss over 2500 Greeks who have come to Australia this year or over the 40,000 who want to come.Well spotted Josephine, now I wonder why that is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-3746792891128376942011-12-23T20:43:27.204+11:002011-12-23T20:43:27.204+11:00Tim T, 99.9% aren't 'Asylum Seekers' t...Tim T, 99.9% aren't 'Asylum Seekers' they should be called what they are illegal immigrants. After all 99.9% leave countries such as Indonesia where they are safe from persecution to come here. It's all about the money, benefits and future possibilities. We want the ones who want the future not the money and benefits.sfwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592447707671698816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-88077125506636598012011-12-23T20:30:06.417+11:002011-12-23T20:30:06.417+11:00My wife's maternal grandparents arrived after ...My wife's maternal grandparents arrived after the war from Hungary. They did the 2 year placement. They assimilated, they were European, Christian etc.<br />There was work back then; probably more jobs than people to fill them, back in the days before career women and off-shore manufacturing.<br />As for these newer arrivals, apart from being a different hue and religion, they are never likely to assimilate because they aren't exposed to 'Australia', or asked to be. <br />Your side of the Yarra, the Leafy Green, is Australia, Prof. Out where I live in the country is definitely Australia. Where these folk get dumped aint. And that's how they like it.Mr.Apocalypsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-29065851466471084082011-12-23T17:19:44.703+11:002011-12-23T17:19:44.703+11:00I bought a very pretty little Tiffany & Co mug...I bought a very pretty little Tiffany & Co mug for a dollar in one of these places (my breakfast at Tiffanys), dragged in by a friend who is an avid collector of desirable old vinyl records, which apparently abound in these domains of cast-off cuisine, entertainment and fashion. What treasure troves such shops can be if you are in the mood for them. Which in exploratory mode I sometimes now find I am.Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-69734974501164792802011-12-23T16:34:55.298+11:002011-12-23T16:34:55.298+11:00Practical idea, sfw. Unfortunately, this country ...Practical idea, sfw. Unfortunately, this country suffers from Hanson-Young, Rintoul, Manne and Marr blight. They have managed to carefully infect other bleeding-hearts, so your proposal, no matter how sensible it might be, would never grow legs. Besides, the ABC and Fairfax press would never sanction such a notion no matter how many times you waved the Professor's examples of fair dinkum asylum seeking under their snouts.<br /><br />JMHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-37355903876341662792011-12-23T15:36:04.345+11:002011-12-23T15:36:04.345+11:00It would be good to have a reasonable conversation...It would be good to have a reasonable conversation about asylum seekers, and at least have the opportunity to formulate some reasonable laws regarding their treatment. <br /><br />But such a conversation would require 1) an acknowledgment that supposedly humane policies (eg, abolishing of TPVs) could lead to bad outcomes (eg, an increase in boats sinking offshore) 2) a common agreement to leave political accusations and moral grandstanding behind - this is not a policy that should be used to demonstrate the virtues of one side of politics over another. Both left and right are to blame here. <br /><br />There's no reason at all why we could not have a simple and just system by which we treat asylum claims. But then again, reason seems to have very little to do with this debate in Australia at the moment...TimThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333303180015967125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-88258768892273576882011-12-23T13:37:11.219+11:002011-12-23T13:37:11.219+11:00Native born useless mouth's could be put to wo...Native born useless mouth's could be put to work on projects to improve infrastructure, paid the dole ,less keep and be trained for menial jobs.to ultimately become taxpayers.Borisgodunovnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-11492895943416732862011-12-23T12:29:10.194+11:002011-12-23T12:29:10.194+11:00I'd have an open borders policy. However any o...I'd have an open borders policy. However any one who comes here does not get access to any public goods or benefits. No medicare, dole, training nothing. They would have to work or die or leave. As some sort of compensation I would reduce the tax they pay by an amount equal to the services they are not permitted to access. After ten years they would be entitled to obtain citzenship and the gain access to those services denied till that time.<br /><br />I reckon it would work, we would get people who wanted the opportunity Australia offers and would be prepared to pay their way. As for the rest send them back to whence they came. Check out the unemployment rates for middle east and africans. Many of them are content to live here on the taxpayer. If you remove their benefits most of them would leave and look for another sucker country to support them. Pity we would be stuck with the native born dole bludgers, but there is nowhere to send them.sfwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592447707671698816noreply@blogger.com