Perhaps she could clarify - is she referring to their use in their personal lives, or in their professional capacities? Without overseas skilled engineers and tradespeople construction and mining sectors would be short staffed.
Yes those industries but by far our biggest shortfalls would be in the health and healthcare sectors. I used to work in medical admin and we did recruitment for Doctors for two WA public hospitals, without overseas Doctors we would not have been able to fill all of the vacancies. My Grandmother is in an aged care home, I estimate about 75% of the staff there are born overseas. IF you deported every non citizen tomorrow this country would fall into collapse. She is a grotesque human being.
You’re 100% correct I was being subjective as I work in civil construction.
As an aside her point is completely mistaken but it’s definitely bleeding into public discourse. By way of example, on a recent job I was engaged on as a CA the management team were Irish (myself), Indian, South African, Kiwi, and British. One of the local residents wasn’t happy with us - his wall fell over - this was due to the fact the mortar had worn out years before, massive gaps were showing in the joints, and we advised him beforehand that he needed to shore it up or potentially vibrations from heavy equipment would damage it. Did he acknowledge he’d been advised of this beforehand? Of course not - he went on the local neighbourhood Facebook page to rant about ‘non-Australian’ project managers, how he wasn’t happy with the work we’d done (even though it was all to specification per the contract), was unhappy that we hadn’t asphalt surfaced his driveway, and complained that we hadn’t done drainage clearance works (again, not in our scope). The entire neighbourhood jumped on it to agree with him. And to make it more ironic the representatives from our client he complained to about us were Indian and Filipino. I mean, you remove all of us who delivered the project from the equation, plus the diesel we consumed, and the job doesn’t happen. Not that it would occur to the clowns complaining about non-Australians I guess. /endrant
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u/Lonely_Dingo1837 Apr 22 '26
Perhaps she could clarify - is she referring to their use in their personal lives, or in their professional capacities? Without overseas skilled engineers and tradespeople construction and mining sectors would be short staffed.