Globalism and the big end of town finds that democracy is all about votes.

The Liberal party was said to be short of cash at the start of this election campaign. Unlike the unions, the capitalists have been careful in the past to give equal donations to both Liberal and Labor parties, but have expected the Liberals to support the immigrant industry.  Howard was able to oblige with 300,000 immigrants a year paid for by our taxes and this obviated the need for Australian firms to train Australians to do skilled jobs needed in our industries which were filled by skilled migrants.

The excuses for this policy were the post-industrial society, the equal outcomes policy in schools, multicultural Australia and the rise of China as the World’s industrial base for cheap goods.

The only people to gain financially from this policy were the resource industries, the banks and developers of shopping malls, infrastructure and housing and the allied unions.  All this is paid for by the profits from the resource industries.

The Australian, 21.7.10 is full of screams from our migrant industry profiteers about the new policy of Labor and Liberal parties to cut migration and go for a sustainable Australia.  A typical comment is “Business supports big Australia”, p.4., Richard Gluyas, Annabel Hepworth in this article Michael Chaney – Woodside and National Australia Bank Chairman said, “paranoia surrounding asylum-seekers (illegal immigrants) was influencing a sensible debate required on population growth”

“I think it’s a real pity when government and oppositions don’t talk about population objectively”, Mr. Chaney said.

Mr. Chaney and his ilk was quite happy to say nothing when 300,000 immigrants were pouring into Australia, so we must conclude that he believes the more immigrants the better.

In another article in the same paper “Gray denies conflict on foreign workers”.  Andrew Burrell writes “Federal Labor M.P. Gary Gray has denied that his strong support for employers to hire foreign workers in big resources projects contradicts Julia Gillard’s vision for sustainable population growth.”

“The Parliamentary Secretary for Western and Northern Australia, who is battling to hold his seat of Brand, chaired a high-level government task force that has recommended an overhaul of the temporary migration system to make it easier for companies to draw on foreign labour.”

Major resources employers have backed the task force’s recommendation, warning that failure to address looming skills shortages will imperil projects worth billions of dollars over the next 5 years.

Mr. Gray said that it was “a temporary migrations solution for temporary skills shortages.”

Well not quite, according to government figures, more than 50 % of migrants who enter Australia on temporary section 457 visas go on to attain permanent residency.

The final report of the government’s National Resources Sector Employment Task-Force also said the number of mining jobs in Australia was expected to rise by 5% a year over the next 5 years predicting a shortfall of 36,000 workers by 2015.

It is obvious that except for some workers and the baby boomer shareholders, few Australians will benefit from the resources boom.

There is no great rush to exploit our riches at the cost of our own people.  We could train our own young to do these jobs, the problem is that our society and particularly the post WW2 generation, have an aversion for industry, which is the basis of our civilisation. Motivation starts at school and our Left wing and Green teachers should be told to motivate our young to enter industry or be replaced.  What they are producing at the moment is unemployable.

The governments part is to provide the free training facilities needed and make sure that employers do their part.  If they want skilled people they must train them.

The Liberal party owes our capitalists nothing and nor do we.  They have exported our industries overseas to increase their wealth and with those industries went our best jobs on which our families could build a secure future.

Cleaning toilets and making beds for tourists and filling shelves in supermarkets is no job for a family man.

Take the power out of the hands of our unions and capitalists and make this country into something worthwhile like Germany or South Korea.