This sort of hints at the possibility of a discourse about immigration that’s more sophisticated than just “good” or “bad”, though I’m forever pessimistic that we can have that.
A conversation about what skills and roles are actually most valuable to us right now, and about how we can actually build things fast enough for a rapidly growing country, and the sort of economic model that it supports. Pauline Hanson has nothing of value to add to that conversation. But every other major faction has dodged it too.
Kurrajong on
He even says that the economic benefits have to be shared around and that’s where most of the issues disaffected voters start, is that their lot is getting worse in what is supposed to be a thriving nation. Anti-immigrant politics focuses that disaffection on blaming immigration and not on the ridiculous concentration of wealth that’s being supported by policy settings that have been in place for decades now.
The focus on skilled migration on filling ‘skills gaps’ and not making training available for people already here after decades of shifting the training burden from enterprises to individuals, a burden out of reach of lower socioeconomic status born citizens is also contributing to the disaffection with the major parties.
Cpt_Riker on
One Nation is popular in the country. Those people have hurt themselves economically by denying climate change, by refusing renewables, and voting for a party that only cares about the wealthy.
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Are you making up for a lack of posts yesterday?
This sort of hints at the possibility of a discourse about immigration that’s more sophisticated than just “good” or “bad”, though I’m forever pessimistic that we can have that.
A conversation about what skills and roles are actually most valuable to us right now, and about how we can actually build things fast enough for a rapidly growing country, and the sort of economic model that it supports. Pauline Hanson has nothing of value to add to that conversation. But every other major faction has dodged it too.
He even says that the economic benefits have to be shared around and that’s where most of the issues disaffected voters start, is that their lot is getting worse in what is supposed to be a thriving nation. Anti-immigrant politics focuses that disaffection on blaming immigration and not on the ridiculous concentration of wealth that’s being supported by policy settings that have been in place for decades now.
The focus on skilled migration on filling ‘skills gaps’ and not making training available for people already here after decades of shifting the training burden from enterprises to individuals, a burden out of reach of lower socioeconomic status born citizens is also contributing to the disaffection with the major parties.
One Nation is popular in the country. Those people have hurt themselves economically by denying climate change, by refusing renewables, and voting for a party that only cares about the wealthy.
Hard to be sympathetic.