Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers

beaverdownunder writes "A debate 'down under' has started to rage surrounding the importation of 'temporary' IT workers on so-called 457 visas, with the Prime Minister promising to bring in tough new restrictions on foreign workers in a pre-election pledge, despite evidence that there are insufficient numbers of Australians to fill the skills gap. Some quarters argue the foreign workers are necessary to drive growth in Australia's IT industry, while others have cited examples where large Australian companies have imported workers needlessly, displacing qualified Aussie personnel."

Comments

Re:Shortage is NOT the Problem

[Anonymous Coward]

Or lower your salary and work harder? If westerners stopped whinning and wirked for 44k a year and stayed past 5:01 then no visas would be required. I was unemployed for nearly 2 years and demanded my 2007 salary. It was inly when I demanded 60% of my prereccesion salary that employers jumped! No one with a bachelors should pull more than 60k a year.

Re:No, they haven't

[benjfowler]

LOL. Said like a true campus leftist.

This guy is either whiter than sour cream, and comfortably middle class and doesn't have to deal with the consequences of multiculturalism.

Or some brown abo or leb who think that anybody opposed to brown privilege and endless handouts to the dregs of the Third World is a "RACIST CUNT1!!1111one"