>>1663175>replaced like there's no tomorrow?Based on what metric?
The reality is Australia is a desirable place to live, when its not on fire with a very high standard of living, ease of establishing a business, heavily regulated banking system, low corruption and probably some of the best education available anywhere in the region. That's not a metric which is easily argued against, its simply a lot better than a large amount of the rest of the world and I'll back that up having been to quite a few of the shit parts of the world along with the best.
However, the vast amount of foreign nationals here are on temp visas- tourism, education and work with the remainder on some kind of permanent residency and aren't technically counted as citizens. Being nationalised as a citizen is fairly difficult and has a lot of conditions attached to it and as much as some people have their own reasons for hating immigration, we do actually need it to keep the population going and if you don't, then the country will slip backwards simply by lack of purchasing power, investment and manpower. BUT, you just can't rock up and expect to be accepted, you'll be background checked extensively, have to go through various training and integration for language, social and some education, laws on how the place works. That means you get residency and the option after a while of becoming a national.
We're not like Europe in that we're not just open slather of whoever turns up gets free jobs, gov gibs and a place to live.
Part of the reason for that is we're quite involved in international affairs and managed to follow the yanks on their various escapades into the middle east and when you've got the largest muslim pop outside the ME on your doorstep, they do want to explode around people. So there's a lot of security aspects to it. We're pretty open about that, if I'm critical of anything is that they're too slow on processing applicants and I don't think that's very fair or humane.
