{"id":828,"date":"2010-08-12T04:42:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=828"},"modified":"2010-08-12T04:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:42:29","slug":"labors-anti-immigration-attitude-is-out-of-the-woodwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Labor&#8217;s Anti-Immigration attitude is out of the woodwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-immigration (policy) proves how out of touch our new Prime Minister is (with reality). There are signs that the Australian Labor Party is getting tough on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Our country needs a larger population to maintain its high standard of living in our very competitive world. She is a typical small-minded Labor Union person.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has studied economics knows that the population of Australia is way too small for a large country.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We need a much larger population to support economies of scale in all areas of production, infrastructure and service delivery. A larger population with our massive supply of natural resources should allow much lower unit costs in all areas and so prices would be much lower.<\/p>\n<p>Mass production and heavy infrastructure investment require a much larger local market of consumers. Everyone would benefit from a much larger population.<\/p>\n<p>The only issue is how it can be planned for with a steady immigration of people with the skills we need to expand our economy to a much more efficient level. \u2013 ?<\/p>\n<p>(Any reaction to this article may be sent directly to Blacktown City Councillor Allan Green <allanvgreen@yahoo.com.au> or posted to the website of Philippine Sentinel at www.philippinesentinel.org)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-immigration (policy) proves how out of touch our new Prime Minister is (with reality). There are signs that the Australian Labor Party is getting tough on immigration. Our country needs a larger population to maintain its high standard of living in our very competitive world. She is a typical small-minded Labor Union person. Anyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}