Look chaps it's too Expensive to educate people in Australia. It's much easier and cheaper to set the universities up to milk money from foreigners and pay the university ranking crowds to bolster Australian university rankings up so that everyone believes that Australian universities are the best in the world. It's much cheaper to get a fully qualified immigrant who has already paid for his studies and is willing to come to Australia and pay the Australian government to come here plus pay to get set up with his savings from elsewhere then waste time educating a local. Why would you do that? It's also cheaper to get a foreign worker in on a 457 visa then to hire an Australian local. Why would you hire an Australian when you can bring somebody else in who will then work hard to build himself a future and spend his wages in Australia because in Australia nobody can save anything to send home anyway. It's one more consumer you bring into the country. The true blue Australian can sell his house and give some taxes back to the government and move somewhere into outback Australia to get another job at a lower standard of living if he can't compete. The Chinese guy will be a future Australian anyway. The aim of the government of Australia is to increase the population of Australia and to have that foreigner bring all his foreign money into Australia. It's not like the True blues Australian is going to leave right? If the true blue Australian complains to much and gets restless well that's why we have the militarised police and strict laws to keep him in place. This thread title, the Abbot Goverment, what a load of utter baloney! What difference does it make who's government is is, nothing changes. Every time I go vote in my electorate I just want to laugh and laugh and laugh, I get liberal shirts, and labour shirts and the greens shirts and I ask the lady who hands me a ballot paper and the pencil if she knows that pencil can be rubbed out while she has no clue what I am even suggesting. It's a joke, before elections you will have family members At a drunken barbecue in the park shouting and arguing with each other frothing at the mouth because one is labour the other is liberal, as if that is of any significance whatsoever? I love Australians and Australia its the best place in the world for a good laugh. I read the Australian newspapers and they are the best. Its first class entertainment from speeches in parliament on misogyny, Johnny Depp and his Dogs, big dick swinging politicians, Italian Mafia connections, Shane warne. The place is incredible.