for the most part, if you avoid the bad areas (like inner city detroit, east st louis, baltimore, etc.) of the u.s, the crime rate and overall danger level is no different from any other european western country or australia. you would get bashed just right after walking out of your house. one thought experiment i like to tell australians to demonstrate this is what if aboriginals were 13% of the pop here rather than 2% or whatever, imagine how much more crime australia would have if that were the case. Like seriously, lets take these doctors away from the subcontinent where they are treating the sick and poor so they can come out here and treat diabetic 60 year old bogans who wouldnt know a vegetable if it hit them in the face.Ĭlick to expand.what do you mean by crazy like the u.s? what are you referring to? america's crime rate is massively exaggerated by foreigners, and most of that is because of certain minority populations that commit a disproportionate share of the crime there. Like, I just find it so outrageous and morally bankrupt to think Australia cant be arsed training enough doctors domestically, yet we hire doctors from third world countries who need them far more than we do. Yet we bring in almost as many foreign doctors a year as we graduate Medical students. There are so many kids out there who would kill to get into Med - like the demand to study the course is huge. The absolute pinnacle of this stupidity is in Medicine. But there are so many jobs where we have the people here, the issue is industry/governments don't want to do the hard yards in terms of training people and take the easy way out of hiring foreign workers.
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Dont get me wrong, Australia does need a degree of immigration to grow and develop and there are many jobs which Australian's wont do. Immigration has been killing wages and the job market here for years. We need a long term plan agreed on by both sides of politics which sets immigration levels and implements long term solutions for current problems and projected problems.Ĭlick to expand.I like how governments are worried about a lack of wage growth and jobs, yet during COVID without immigration the jobs market has become far more favourable for employees and wages are starting to show signs of growth (remember all the doom at the beginning about mass unemployment?). Nationally our highways are poor especially along the eastern seaboard.
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In Sydney public transport especially our rail network needs injections of capital to upgrade current services and to increase the networks size. Our infrastruture nationally, and in Sydney is pretty shit house. Immigrants should be given incentives to move to regional areas as this serves the dual purpose of propping up regional areas (and hence primary production capabilities) and it eases strain particularly Melbourne and Sydney. For a start we need to increase immigration especially skilled labour and younger immigrants. We need a plan based on need not cheap politics *cough*. Immigration, we need a long term plan not a four yearly decision. And the more radical end of increased density if we lived in ziggurats we could have yards the same size or bigger than what we have and density could be increased by 100% (Hey I was bored in Technical Drawing). They chew up farming and dairy land, they increase the ammount of water dumped in the ocean as storm water and not absorbed by the ground, their use of space is inefficient, we must build higher density.
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Suburban Sprawl, put simply hasty land releases and rapidly springing up MacMansions are bad for many reasons beyond tehir inate ugliness (apologies to anyone unfortunate enough to live in one). I mean WTF? Is it just me or has someone been wearing the clever shorts? In my area there is a town whose sewerage treatment plant pumps clean water into a creek which flows into a dirty river from which drinking water is drawn from and sterilised. More than 1/3 of New York drinks reprocessed sewerage this is not an expensive untried or 'new-fangled' technology and it's time we implemented it. Rebates should be greater and extened to cover over water saving things eg grey water toilets. Water, immediate problem, droughts can't be prevented but they can be prepared for, restrictions should be permenant and harsher. The drought and associated water crisis is a small issue linked to the larger issue of a lack of planed developement on a nationwide scale.