Refugees & The Unemployed
With globalisation both employment and UNemployment will be distributed more evenly around the world and, until the population of our own region is much more evenly distributed & the standard of living is better balanced, people will continue to be pushed & pulled to Australia.
I don't believe there is anything civilised that can be done to stop increasing numbers of people wanting to come here. If I was facing a lifetime of danger or poverty I would gladly risk my life for a chance to be here.
Australia's desperation to protect our borders shows just how convinced many are that our way of life is threatened by the "costs" of such inflows. Whatever the benefit that immigration may bring, many fear massive job and housing pressures & a blowout in welfare.
In that desperation, even work for the dole has been proposed as a deterrent to asylum seekers and as an offset to costs of dealing with them. Of course this disregards how counter-productive and costly work for the dole has already proven to be.
Instead I would like to propose that the poor, including refugees and unemployed, should be welcomed to choose (or reject) voluntary community work.
see http://landrights4all.weebly.com/change-centrelinks-activity-test.html
With TAFE Outreach support, one of their choices should be to help build SUBURBAN public housing, involving choices from bookwork & cooking to labouring. The building should start from a community room providing facilities and interim accommodation for all.
A food garden should supplement Centerlink's payments.
In essence, the current arrangements under which over 55's can to choose 15hrs/wk work with an approved community organisation to satisfy mutual obligations should be an option for all.
Because this would not involve coercion & would provide food, housing security and social integration, it would be much more effective & attractive than the work for the dole proposals gaining in support. It would not only provide valuable work but would lay the foundations for the sustainable development which we all need to support.
For more detail please see -
http://landrights4all.weebly.com/neighbourhoods-that-work.html
@landrights4all
Video: Uganda provides refugees with land to build their own shelter http://rfg.ee/tROWY
With globalisation both employment and UNemployment will be distributed more evenly around the world and, until the population of our own region is much more evenly distributed & the standard of living is better balanced, people will continue to be pushed & pulled to Australia.
I don't believe there is anything civilised that can be done to stop increasing numbers of people wanting to come here. If I was facing a lifetime of danger or poverty I would gladly risk my life for a chance to be here.
Australia's desperation to protect our borders shows just how convinced many are that our way of life is threatened by the "costs" of such inflows. Whatever the benefit that immigration may bring, many fear massive job and housing pressures & a blowout in welfare.
In that desperation, even work for the dole has been proposed as a deterrent to asylum seekers and as an offset to costs of dealing with them. Of course this disregards how counter-productive and costly work for the dole has already proven to be.
Instead I would like to propose that the poor, including refugees and unemployed, should be welcomed to choose (or reject) voluntary community work.
see http://landrights4all.weebly.com/change-centrelinks-activity-test.html
With TAFE Outreach support, one of their choices should be to help build SUBURBAN public housing, involving choices from bookwork & cooking to labouring. The building should start from a community room providing facilities and interim accommodation for all.
A food garden should supplement Centerlink's payments.
In essence, the current arrangements under which over 55's can to choose 15hrs/wk work with an approved community organisation to satisfy mutual obligations should be an option for all.
Because this would not involve coercion & would provide food, housing security and social integration, it would be much more effective & attractive than the work for the dole proposals gaining in support. It would not only provide valuable work but would lay the foundations for the sustainable development which we all need to support.
For more detail please see -
http://landrights4all.weebly.com/neighbourhoods-that-work.html
@landrights4all
Video: Uganda provides refugees with land to build their own shelter http://rfg.ee/tROWY