I'm sure some people on here don't have a brain.

Let's do some maths shall we.

Let's send 1000 refugees to a regional centre with a population of roughly 30 000.

Let's say half of those 30 000 people work (15 000 for the arithmetically challenged) of those unemployment is at 8% (conservative for regional towns.)

That's 1200 people that are out of work in that town.

Now refugees, initially, are men who come first and bring their families with them. Let's say 750 out of that 1000 are now looking for work.

The working population pool is now 15 750 people.

The number of people looking for work is now 1950 boosting the unemployment rate to 12.4%.

That's a 50% (+) increase.

I realise this is a simplistic overview and there are other factors but as shitty as it is lumping them all in Sydney or Melbourne the opportunity to absorb them is clearly more easy in a city with a larger population base.

Not to mention facilities, support, etc etc.





Edited by munrubenmuz: 17/9/2015 02:41:19 PM

the Hunter and Illawarra are far bigger than that

They're areas, not towns.

Yes, regional areas where hundreds of thousands of people live.
You brought up towns.

Can we have a new suburb called Lil Damascus?

-PB

The nickname for Moorooka in Brisbane is Moorookadishu.

I'm calling BS on the stats as well.

I'm sure if people were provided with the opportunity to have meaningful employment to support and advance themselves and their families, they would.

In any event, of the 12k we are taking in, you would hope that we are screening people properly and a decent portion would be skilled and able to find some work in Australia.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Not sure if Syrias

Sydney grows by roughly 60-70,000 people every year. 7,000 Syrian refugees will make no noticeable difference.

And if we want them to be near services, jobs and support networks, sending them to the country is fucking dumb. Especially in the areas of education and mental health, these people need to have easy access.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3412.0/

Shove over everyone (again).

Actually, 7000 is not that much. There's been something like 60,000 Iraqis move to Australia in the last 12 years, they just didn't all come as refugees so the stats don't jump out.

Stats published a couple of years ago said that the employment rate among Afghani refugees was 5%. HOWEVER, I would be a lot more confident of people from Syria being able to adapt faster to working in an English speaking, developed country.

Edited by Aljay: 17/9/2015 08:39:08 PM

Especially considering we're taking the Christian plurality, which is probably one of the more educated groups in Syria.

Can't believe the young inner-city trendies that will support this.

"Houses are too expensive, public transport/roads are too crowded and unemployment (especially youth) is increasing!"

"Oh I know, lets add more people to drive up demand, increase congestion and increase competition for jobs!"

FMD , dead-set morons

You racist, extreme right bigot :lol:

Oh my god please let this be fake



-PB

Yes. Thats from the "Britain Furst" fb page not the "Britain First" one :lol:

The inner city trendies are dead set the worst people ever. If you've ever been to West End in Brisbane it's a cesspool of verbal shite.

Nuke Brunswick street

Holla, place is full of kunts

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Straight outta Compton

If your job is taken by a fresh off the boat refugee with no skills, no clothes and limited english speaking ability then i think it is time for you to up skill. I think all these refugees will end up like the mexicans in the USA. They will do the low skilled, hard labour jobs that most 21st century Australians don't want a bar of.

Nah mate...you got it all wrong..."We Grew Here, They Flew Here"..:lol:

No one who lives on the fkn Gold Coast, the bogan capital of the country, has the right to say anywhere else is a cesspool.

"Yeah m8 Fuck the Boats".

Cunts here are just as bad as the UKIP and Britain First flogs back in the UK. "Despite having the benefit of growing up in a stable 1st world county with countless education opportunities, I'm so useless and lazy that I can't compete with fkn Refugees for the most basic of jobs. But nah, it's definitely NOT MY FAULT and the Daily Mail/Herald Sun/Murdoch trash agrees."

Edited by melbourne_terrace: 18/9/2015 02:49:40 PM

Nigga you got me wrong, I'm talking about the hippie flogs that hang there :lol:

Edited by MrBrisbane: 17/3/2016 09:27:30 PM

Your comment is not without merit but If only lowerclass poverty line "Bogan" Australian had the support of a tax payer funded multicultural industry that ensures them quality access to health, accommodation (possibly heavily subsidised), training, education and employment etc.

Regardless this issue is much more complicated than more competition for jobs.

Its as if you assume these guys wont be explited for minimum wage. Bosses will see a syrian surname and drop the wage. Its not hard to imagine as they already do it for indian and chinese students.

They support these policies knowing that the migrants won't be settled in their neighbourhoods, but will be out where the working poor live. They get to display their moral superiority without suffering the consequences.

The upside of that is that these scumbags will be in Western Sydney, not proper Sydney. Enjoy the extra drive bys, gang violence and longer lines at Centrelink.