Originally Posted by hot dragon

a lot of australias problems seem to come from short term policy views without long term strategic thinking. (never, this from politicians !) the last government cut education spending dramatically which was good for the budget for a while, but now we have a lack of educated people. and the solution for this was to fly in educated people rather than increase our own capacity to train.

economics aside, the ethics of this is appaling. australia is a wealthy first world country. yet we are trying to import trained people from countried like bangladesh and india, people who were trained and educated by those societies to provide services to them. so some of the most impoverished people in the world are helping to fund australias economy. shameful.