Immigration issues have been all over the news lately for all the wrong reasons. But what about skilled migration? Here is an article from The West Australian suggesting that what we need are more skilled workers, not higher wages for the …
Category Archive: April emails
From John Roskam | Thursday 27 April, 2011
Immigration issues have been all over the news lately for all the wrong reasons. But what about skilled migration? It’s difficult to justify restricting skilled migration when Australia’s north has such a pronounced requirement for it. Even though pay rises …
From John Roskam | Thursday 21 April, 2011
I’ve been talking about skills shortages a lot in the Ideas for a new North emails. And here’s why: this video from ABC’s the 7.30 Report explains how the skills shortages actually affect you. The resource dependent country town Roma, …
From John Roskam | Friday 8 April, 2011
Remember when Bob Katter said he wanted to split Queensland into two separate states? Well Australia’s most prominent historian, Geoffrey Blainey, agrees. Two years ago Blainey said that the Australian map hadn’t been changed since 1859 – well before anyone …