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Oh no, they're taking Australian jobs

Miss Chicken

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is the usual cry from people who don't want to see asylum seekers coming to Australia. However there are plenty of jobs that Australians just won't take such as these

KING Island is at the centre of the federal election's border protection debate, with residents lobbying for the Bass Strait community to become a centre for asylum seekers.
A delegation of community leaders led by Mayor Charles Arnold has asked the Immigration Department about taking 200 displaced people.
Cr Arnold said the proposal would not involve detention centres with razor wire and he hoped the proposal would help boost the island's static population and allow hundreds of job vacancies to be filled. At the moment, the island's massive employment void is being filled in the short term by 120 Korean students who are working at King Island's meatworks and renowned cheese factory.
"The idea is only in its infancy but we received a good hearing from Immigration Department officials in Canberra a month ago," Cr Arnold said.
"The island has infrastructure to support a population of 3500 and we could take at least 200 displaced persons.
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This is a community desperate to have workers but who are unable to get them. Is opening up a refugee centre a good solution, in your opinion.
 
Sounds like a great idea.

One thing I'm unclear about: the Korean students who're working there now, do they fly to Hobart for classes or something? :confused:
 
I am not sure. Maybe they are actually studying in Korea but work during their school breaks? Or maybe they are taking short courses in Australia and are presently between courses?
 
On a vaguely related note: I sat in on a lecture on diplomatic protocol given by the former foreign minister Alexander Downer a little while ago. One of the anecdotes emerging from that lecture concerned Howard's friendship with then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, which was founded upon their mutual love of cricket. In the course of one of their meetings, Howard - not knowing anything about the subject - managed to promise Musharraf that Australia would admit Pakistani students to Australian universities in numbers somewhat in excess of Australia's then total annual intake of foreign students. And given that most foreign students to Australian universities are from India or China, that turned out to be a rather untenable proposition. :lol:

The anecdote was an example of the messes made by politicians that the diplomatic service then has to go and clean up. ;)
 
And sometimes they just want cheap labour.

The old Mitsubihis plant in Adelaide is being dismantled and the contract went to a Chinese company who brought in overseas workers to do the job.

In this case it probably was a matter of now Australian would take job - after all why would you work for less than $2 an hour. Chinese company has been penalised for under paying it's workers to the tune of $180,000.
 
The minimum wage, at the very least, should be paid to anyone working in Australia.
 
I wonder what the internet connection on King Island are like. I don't think that there would be many other ways to spend your free hours.

There are currently 1700 people living on the island, down from about the 3,500 people threre used to be. That is quite a small population for an island that is 1,098 km2 (423.9 sq mi) in size.
 
That means land there is cheap and freely available right? It would be awesome to buy a few hectares and set up a homestead overlooking the water or something. I could keep chickens and an army of killer sheep with lasers on their heads.
 
I gather there are many houses empty that would simply need some work done on them.

There are plenty of sheep but without the lasers.
 
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