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Haha. classic! Its the doctor who smokes.

Finicky you seem to have an addiction to loss making speccy stocks. Maybe you need to visit a psychologist or something? Or at least have a an online sports/political betting account where you only put a few hundred a month in it to stop your gambling addiction from spilling over into the stock...

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p.s. I will add one comment which I forgot to mention That is a straw man argument which you seem to make a lot of. I never said a job is a right. I never said we should have a minimum wage (I merely suggested that voluntarily paying higher wages can get you reliable local employees). However...

Mmmm...shiney! Yes many small businesses illegally pay backpackers in cash (we all know a large percentage of small businesses do not fully declare there cash income and hence spend it as cash off the books) and underpay them relative to award wages. The practice is rampant and I have seen it...

P.S. yes Big A.D. I agree in Australia we currently have a lot of government created distortions in our economy which result in Mal-investment but that is a completely separate issue (and very hard to fix due to vested interests) to the issue I am talking about and is basically a whole other can...

Big A.D. we already treat people in Australia differently depending on what types of visa they have. People with student visas cannot legally work more than 20 hours a week and do not get access to medicare or centrelink. They could be studying here for 3+ years while not getting access to...

Big A.D. as I pointed out before I am not only talking about tourism, I am talking about the whole migration/visa system of which tourism is one part. On top of boosting tourism, if we made it easier and more attractive for wealthy foreigners to come and live and invest here and for example we...

Mmm....Shiney! sometimes an evil which cannot be undone (not politically feasible) necessitates another lesser evil to counter it. We just have to agree to disagree.

mmm...shiney! The problem is again we don't live in a free market. In Australia there are too many purposefully government imposed hurdles to increasing the supply of housing (high taxes, costly and time consuming council approval, zoning requirements, corruption, etc). Until these issues are...

mmm...shiney! You are misrepresenting my position. I am not in favour of protectionism per se. I never said we should have minimum wages or put import tariffs or anything like that. I am just pointing out that we can only allow a limited number of people (in terms of longer term visas) into...

https://www.finder.com.au/new-retirement-plan-luxury-thai-visa-packs For example if you read this article you for a $60,000 USD one off fee plus $600 USD per annum you can get a visa which is almost instantly and repeatedly renewable so you can stay in Thailand up to 20 years! Although I did...

You could legitimately argue about how to fix the migration system in Australia and there are many ways to skin a cat, but I still believe that the main problem with our migration system is that most migrants to Australia are coming to work and compete for existing jobs rather than coming to...

Big A.D. that is a very easy problem to work around. For all these millionaires getting business or investment type permanent residency visas we could make rules that they can only purchase off the plan houses or apartments (which developers will build for them if they can know they can pre-sell...

Look at whats happened in U.S.A. over the past 20 or 30 years. They import huge amounts of cheap foreign labour, and wealth inequality has skyrocketed. Inflation adjusted wages for the majority of workers hasn't risen since the 1960s...

I am not saying we tell business owners who to employ, I am merely saying we should provide a carrot and stick incentive system for them to employ locals over foreigners. If they still want to employ foreigners then so be it. Or do you prefer that businesses keep importing foreign labour while...

Well actually Australia leads the world (we are literally number one at 11,000+ millionaires moving here in 2016) for the number of millionaires coming here: http://fortune.com/2017/03/01/millionaire-immigration/ However even though that is world leading, thats still only 11,000 people. Imagine...

mmm...shiney! Its just not true. Gina Reinhart just wanted to secure her labour at cheaper wage rates. With the mining industry doing poorly compared to 4 or 5 years ago there are lot's of experienced people who got retrenched and are looking for work. Now I have been to countries in Asia and...

mmm....shiney! Are you trying to tell me in a country with 24 million people and an unemployment rate north of 6% (with under-employment probably at 15%+) that a company cannot secure 1500 workers? Of course they can, its purely an issue of the wage rates they are willing to pay. In a...

Big A.D. I know somebody who works as a migration agent believe me for those people trying to get 188 or 888 visas its still a pain in the ass process. All I am saying is a lot of other countries are managing the process a lot smarter then we are. mmm....shiney! a few decades back larger...