Did anybody see the 4 corners report on Lampedusa, Italy?
Kind of puts our own refugee "crisis" into perspective when you consider they have had over 40,000 refugees land on a very small island.
There are now more refugees than locals. If you didnt see the report which strangely got a little less attention than our cows dieing to be eaten
the link below tells the story.http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2011/s3263523.htm
Again, any item can be twisted. this article speaks of The Schengen Agreement, which reads like it was set up to make "legitimate Travel" easier within europe, not to be used for illegal travel.
Quote from Wiki -
is a treaty signed on 14 June 1985 near the town of Schengen in Luxembourg, between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community. It was supplemented by the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement 5 years later. Together these treaties created Europe's borderless Schengen Area, which operates very much like a single state for international travel with border controls for travellers travelling in and out of the area, but with no internal border controls.
The Schengen Agreements and the rules adopted under them were entirely separate from the EU structures until the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, which incorporated them into the mainstream of European Union law. The borderless zone created by the Schengen Agreements, the Schengen Area, currently consists of 25 European countries, covering a population of over 400 million people and an area of 4,312,099 square kilometers (1,664,911 sq mi).[1]
^^^^
Do you know what French bread is like after 4 days sitting on the shelf???
He knew what he was doing... 
I keep hearing the words aahh smithers!!
40,000 refugees in Italy
over 400,000 fleeing famine in Africa - all squeezed into 1 under resourced camp in Kenya.
And Australians think a $10 a week cut to our budgets when we consistently rate as having one of the highest living standards in the entire world is too much to take.
We are a bunch of over privileged ungrateful brats.
I keep hearing the words aahh smithers!!
i have a problem with amounts spent on the war industry and the cost of medicine- it's sick
and pro sports and goverment grants for those sports instead of helping the less fortunate
I did an induction at work today , along with 3 others .
3 obvious aussie types and 1 from somalia, I am NOT trying to differenciate , but this was a construction site , so we can lift heavy things but we are not bright , (is that the analogy most of you use?) the dark chappy could not )even though his use of english seemed rather good) answer the most basic of questions - eg where is the nearest first aid kit, (was explained to us 30 seconds before having to answer (cause we can lift heavy things ,but we are not bright) the office outside where we were sitting .
What do you do if you are injured in any way ?, no matter how minor?(explained to us 30 seconds before having to answer) report to the site office.
These questions seemed to difficult for him????????
why?
I tried to explain how to fill in the form to him before the 22yr old geek came in to help .I watched from afar and it was 15 minutes before he finished. Although his comprehension of english seemed pretty good , and pronunciation was good ,I don't think he had any understanding of what he was doing.
I am not sure of what use he would be to anybody on site because of this, but I think a better intergration scheme needs to be set up to improve their prospects of employment
Ive just finnished a mature age apprenticeship and finding training in our booming mining industry was incredibly competetive, and it still took two more employers in the metro area to complete it. leaving me in debt. Companys need to fork out more for training those who want it, especially the larger ones... how many apprentices are trained on site compared to how many are needed for 5 years time.. its ridiculous.
I know where lucky and have alot to give but i sure would like to see the potential training go to those who have grown up here, sounds unfair, but when i went to indo for the first time last month... I couldnt help but think we are all fckd if thats just the tip of world population.
^^ exactly we are, and those contolling your mortgage (economic livelihood) want you to be.
the only differnce between you me and them is economics...
I once believed it was all that made us seperate
and ideologically, I still do
but,
The thing that really seperates us is the ideology of the economics..
we believe we are all deserved of an equal share...
the share our forefathers left as their legacy
our ideology as represented by an economically driven government that does not represent us, is that it believes that the poor economic refuge deserves to be bolstered to an equitable and economicaly and socially level playing field within the community without first considering the position of the community within which it demografies.
meaning, those native to this regime, who struggle for generations to achieve an economic stability within this governmental economically hindered structure, deservedly feel and rightly so, a manivalance against those who appear to come lately and be economically and socially afforded a seemingly higher resoluted demoraphic status than themselves and those they constanly struggle to provide for....
sorry, I'll read this again come morning, am slightly on the enibriation
geez doc, you come over all pinko lefty when you're pissed! Is that your true self showing through?
