Who's a wanker now then?
Answer: Australia and Winston Peters.
Australia is loosening its immigration policy. Grudgingly I bet. I mean it's bad enough that Australia had to abandon its white Australia immigration policy after WW2, now they have to increase their coloured quota by 20,000!
The reason? As much as it would be nice to think that Australians have become a little more tolerant.. alas that is not the answer. In reality, Australia (like us) is now facing massive skills shortages, with almost 150,000 jobs unfilled.
This is a slap in the face for Winston Peters who 'warned' us in 2002 about the danger of not having as strict an immigration policy as Australia. It's pretty clear from the Aussie experience, that if we had followed Peters line back then, we'd have even more of a skills shortage now. Oh no wait, we DID follow Mr. Peters back in 2002. Which is probably why we have one of the largest skills shortages in the western world!
Sticking with Immigration, apparently the difference between Green xenophobia and NZ First xenophobia is the following: whenever Greens propose nationalisation it's responding "to the chilling winds of globalisation", and whenever NZ First proposes exactly the same thing its "jingoistic, chauvinistic nationalism".
Apparently it's the "subliminal messaging" underneath that counts not the policy.
In the end, both policies display a distrust of foreigners. They think that NZ's richest are better suited to managing these companies than non-white people overseas who 'cannot be controlled'. That's not a difference in my book.
Australia is loosening its immigration policy. Grudgingly I bet. I mean it's bad enough that Australia had to abandon its white Australia immigration policy after WW2, now they have to increase their coloured quota by 20,000!
The reason? As much as it would be nice to think that Australians have become a little more tolerant.. alas that is not the answer. In reality, Australia (like us) is now facing massive skills shortages, with almost 150,000 jobs unfilled.
This is a slap in the face for Winston Peters who 'warned' us in 2002 about the danger of not having as strict an immigration policy as Australia. It's pretty clear from the Aussie experience, that if we had followed Peters line back then, we'd have even more of a skills shortage now. Oh no wait, we DID follow Mr. Peters back in 2002. Which is probably why we have one of the largest skills shortages in the western world!
Sticking with Immigration, apparently the difference between Green xenophobia and NZ First xenophobia is the following: whenever Greens propose nationalisation it's responding "to the chilling winds of globalisation", and whenever NZ First proposes exactly the same thing its "jingoistic, chauvinistic nationalism".
Apparently it's the "subliminal messaging" underneath that counts not the policy.
In the end, both policies display a distrust of foreigners. They think that NZ's richest are better suited to managing these companies than non-white people overseas who 'cannot be controlled'. That's not a difference in my book.
posted by Dileepa at 8:36 am
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