Quote Originally Posted by yellow_sub View Post
Agreed, not going into politics here, but all this government is looking at are incomes and revenues.
Record high rates of immigration and huge numbers of international students and various work visas for the last 20 years is the lazy, cheap and nasty way to get economic growth. That's why governments, Labor and Liberal love it.
And it means more consumers and more cheap labour and keeps wages down.
So higher consumption + lower labour costs = higher profits, so business loves it too.
And as for punters, well we get constant supplies sex workers and take away