Alan John Gamlen

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The economic effects are not what really is driving the migration debate.”
It’s a story as old as time, where people feel insecure and when purse strings are tight,
They don’t seem to have fallen into the trap of chasing a net migration number,
Let’s see if this lets out some of the hot air in the migration debate,
It’s just a kind of slightly nasty opportunism, really, because by and large it’s taxpayers who pay for those benefits and migrants as a whole contribute more in taxes than in benefits,
That means that the number of people you’re accepting into the temporary program is linked to Australia’s capacity to support permanent settlement through the development of infrastructure, and you don’t have this kind of metastasised population of guest workers who are having all sorts of unintended consequences,

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