Immigration versus Culture Retention

[Wysiwyg]

Here's an informative article on immigration trends and a variety of stats.

Victoria the place to be
TIM COLEBATCH
February 20, 2010

http://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria-the-place-to-be-20100219-oly9.html

Kiwis migrating here prefer Queensland. The British and South African settlers tend to get off at the first stop, Western Australia.

Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans and Iraqis flock to Sydney and NSW. But for Indians, Malaysians and Sri Lankans, Victoria is the state of choice - or was in 2008-09.

Yes. Victoria (Melbourne) is a beautiful place while New South Wales (Sydney- remember 2000 Olympic Games) is friendly too. These are the best places in Australia.

 

[c-unit]

Could you provide some factual basis for the opinion that the world is overpopulated please?

Those countries are disease ridden dirty places because of the lack of education with respect to the environment and due to corruption.

I support the side of humans for humans not humans for no humans.

Have you seen the pollution in big cities of the world? It's so bad that it is difficult to breathe. And it has nothing to do with poor education with respect to the environment - they use the same cars as we do. It's just that there are millions of them.

I don't feel my argument needs facts or stats - I've seen it with my own eyes. Too many people and a lack of infrastructure to support it. This is where Australia is heading. Enjoy your personal space whilst you've still got it.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Immigrating is a normal activity. What surprises me is the number of doctors that have immigrated and taken up positions in public and private practice. I wonder if the schooling required to become a doctor in Australia is too costly or the time of 4 to 6 years without income (apart from part time work) is prohibitive. Amazes me why so many doctors from o.s. Surely a Congolese Doctorate of Medicine is different from Australia. I have some doubt after recent experiences.

 

[Tisme]

Immigrating is a normal activity. What surprises me is the number of doctors that have immigrated and taken up positions in public and private practice. I wonder if the schooling required to become a doctor in Australia is too costly or the time of 4 to 6 years without income (apart from part time work) is prohibitive. Amazes me why so many doctors from o.s. Surely a Congolese Doctorate of Medicine is different from Australia. I have some doubt after recent experiences.

Closed shop here, with numbers limited by Royal Chartered Collegiate. Of course we don't have a monopoly on smarts either ... just look at our leadership teams.

 

[SirRumpole]

Closed shop here, with numbers limited by Royal Chartered Collegiate.

I think the large quota of foreign doctors (in my area pretty much all the GP's are foreign) was a response by government to the closed shop attitude and the consequent forcing up of doctor's salaries and increasing doctor militancy under the AMA's Bruce Shepherd at that time.

The doctor's union has certainly got quieter in recent years so that increased foreign intake seems to have worked.

 

[Tisme]

I think the large quota of foreign doctors (in my area pretty much all the GP's are foreign) was a response by government to the closed shop attitude and the consequent forcing up of doctor's salaries and increasing doctor militancy under the AMA's Bruce Shepherd at that time.

The doctor's union has certainly got quieter in recent years so that increased foreign intake seems to have worked.

No sooner than one of my nieces gets accepted, a Porcshe salesman is calling her...true

 

[luutzu]

Immigrating is a normal activity. What surprises me is the number of doctors that have immigrated and taken up positions in public and private practice. I wonder if the schooling required to become a doctor in Australia is too costly or the time of 4 to 6 years without income (apart from part time work) is prohibitive. Amazes me why so many doctors from o.s. Surely a Congolese Doctorate of Medicine is different from Australia. I have some doubt after recent experiences.

You can't train people to give a dam.

Took my 4 year old to a GP because he was dragging his leg. Might be due to him throwing a tandrum and slipped off the toddler seat in the car.

The dam doctor barely look at him. Not even touching his leg or in any way examine his ankle or anything. Just freaking sat there mumbling stuff as she wrote a referral to the emergency. Then she seriously licks her finger to rub out her writing as she write and repeat herself about how curious it is for the kid to be dragging his feet.

I have to kinda say give me the dam note so I can rush him to the hospital.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Took my 4 year old to a GP because he was dragging his leg. Might be due to him throwing a tandrum and slipped off the toddler seat in the car.

The dam doctor barely look at him. Not even touching his leg or in any way examine his ankle or anything.

I believe the private practices expedite patient consultations to meet a busy schedule. My experience was visiting the same foreign (I thought to give him a chance being from o.s.) doctor 6 months apart with a completely different issue and him giving a prescription for the head cold issue 6 months ago. I told him I don't have a head cold and please give me something appropriate. He then went online and googled some drug and printed the data sheet for me to read. I am never going back.

You can't train people to give a damn.

They are like any tradey or professional, some are good and some are not.

 

[luutzu]

I believe the private practices expedite patient consultations to meet a busy schedule. My experience was visiting the same foreign (I thought to give him a chance being from o.s.) doctor 6 months apart with a completely different issue and him giving a prescription for the head cold issue 6 months ago. I told him I don't have a head cold and please give me something appropriate. He then went online and googled some drug and printed the data sheet for me to read. I am never going back.


They are like any tradey or professional, some are good and some are not.

Yea, there are good and bad. Unfortunately I've only known maybe 3 decent doctors all these years. The rest are just about money.

I heard that the medical association, or Medicare, put GPs on notice when their average consultation time are too short. They does it by counting how many rebate they get per day and average it over the working hours.

To get around that, I actually know of a doctor who fudge the dates of patients they see, spreading it out and presumably, well in this guy's case I know for a fact, working on other business interests.

Then there are GP who make patient wait while they're on the phone with their bank manager or ask me to fix his mobile phone because I'm in IT.

I guess it's just hard to find good people, anywhere.