Comments on: How hardline Hanson won on migration https://www.policyforum.net/hostage-hansons-migration-myths/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Fri, 25 Aug 2017 07:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: Fred https://www.policyforum.net/hostage-hansons-migration-myths/#comment-7350 Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:22:09 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=11519#comment-7350 In reply to w ch.

…overseas fee paying students enabled to transition to residence and citizenship served the business community , businesses were enabled to recruit temporary 457 visa workers and their families with a pathway to permanency while domestic training of the skilled workers needed flounders… only Labor briefly increased the size of the Humanitarian Program for refugees and humanitarian sponsored entrant from a pathetic low of 13 750 at a time of global crisis, and the Coalition carved it back from 20 000 pa to about where it was in 1996..creating longer queues for refugee family reunion.

]]> By: w ch https://www.policyforum.net/hostage-hansons-migration-myths/#comment-7347 Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:52:02 +0000 http://www.policyforum.net/?p=11519#comment-7347 Funny when discussing changes in migration, the author did not mention the change in numbers coming to Australia since Hanson first appeared on the scene in 1996. Our migration program is triple in size compared to what it was then. We add one million people every three years through migration and people are sick and tired of it. That is the biggest change in migration since 1996 and yet not a mention of it in this article. A recent SBS poll showed that 61 per cent of Australians thought our level of migration was too high. It is triple what it was from 1945 to 2000. ALP, Liberals and Greens all approve of this policy when 61 per cent of people are against it. Hanson filled a vacuum. The numbers coming here have increased so much that Australia has the highest rate of population growth in the developed world. How an increase in arrivals that sees Australia the fastest growing developed country does not rate in this article as a change in migration policy, escapes me. Only Hanson and Katter campaigned on zero net migration. Opposing socially and environmentally destructive rates of population growth is not racist.

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