The Jobs Summit last week was a wasted opportunity. A key decision from the Albanese government was to increase the immigration cap to 195,000 new immigrants a year. When there aren’t enough jobs for Australians right now how is importing another 195,000 hopeful employees going to help?
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President, two minutes is more than enough to review Labor’s Jobs and Skills Summit.
Allowing pensioners and student visa holders to earn more WILL help small businesses in the city and in the bush.
This has been One Nation policy for some time.
$40 billion in development funding through to 2030. $5 billion a year sounds good until we realise private investment spending in Australia in 2022/23 alone will be $143 billion.
$5 billion is a drop in the bucket. Just enough to provide the Labor with endless media photo ops.
This was the best opportunity in years to talk about growing our employment base – mining, agriculture, manufacturing, value adding. Creating breadwinner jobs.
Opportunity NOT taken.
25% of the delegates, one quarter, were union bosses. Yet there was no tangible job creation that may benefit union members. No wonder Red Unions are booming.
What did come out of the summit?
1. Additional vocational training places, for jobs that don’t exist;
2. Preferential employment schemes for women and Aboriginals, for jobs that don’t exist;
3. 195,000 new migrants every year, for jobs that don’t exist.
How will our crumbling health care system provide for all these new arrivals?
Victoria is treating patients in tents and Queensland in the back of ambulances.
Where will the housing come from? 100,000 Australians are homeless and that rate is rising. Rental prices are up 18% this year alone.
Inflation is 6% on the way to 10%. Life for everyday Australians is getting very hard, very quickly.
Labor will make all of these things worse with increased immigration adding more pressure on health and housing, while diluting the power of workers. That will reduce workers’ wages and living conditions even further.
Just who are Labor working for?
We have One flag. We are One Community. And One Nation is now the workers’ party.
