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Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by jackvalentine on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:09AM (#14001498)
> not as much immigration as the US or West Europe.

I'm pretty sure Australia has a higher immigration rate than the U.S (a quick google supports this) and our net immigration rate is papering over some of the structural issues in our economy in turn helping us avoid a recession.

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by Consultant32452 on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:29AM (#14001585)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

In particular, read the Notes section next to the US. Our immigration rate, if you counted it the same way, is about the same as Australia. But comparing US immigration to Australia immigration is apples to oranges. Australia has quite strict regulations on who it accepts as immigrants, and doesn't even accept a single refugee. Meanwhile the US has an illegal immigration population that dwarfs the legal one, we basically don't have a Southern border.

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by unlikelymordant on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:43AM (#14001646)
Australia takes 0 refugees?

"Australia’s humanitarian refugee intake will be set at 18,750 people per year, making it the third largest humanitarian programme in the world."

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australias-refugee-intake...

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by jackvalentine on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:51AM (#14001674)
> and doesn't even accept a single refugee

I assume you came to this misunderstanding because of our (legally and morally dubious) policy of not settling refugees that arrive by boat. I assure you we do accept refugees.

Other posters have dealt with your other factual misconceptions than I can, but a personal appeal from me to resist posting with a sense of authority on a topic you apparently are so unqualified to make statements about.

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by MarkMc on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:59AM (#14002374)
> we basically don't have a Southern border.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say you didn't have a southern border. From 2005 net immigration from Mexico has been negative:

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-...

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by Consultant32452 on Monday April 03, 2017 @01:42PM (#14025113)
When our economy collapsed net immigration went negative for a bit. That's not the same as the border being enforced.
Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by dragonmum on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:53AM (#14001685)
> Australia has quite strict regulations on who it accepts as immigrants, and doesn't even accept a single refugee.

Lets not forget that all Australians except for Aboriginal people are technically immigrants.

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by exodust on Friday March 31, 2017 @08:06AM (#14002890)
Depends what your definition of 'terra nullius' is, and whether you believe that Aboriginal people were 'uncivilised' and if they were uncivilised then can another country claim legal settlement of that land for that reason.

The debate will never cease.

In the thousands of years Aboriginal people had here, it's a pity they didn't unite in greater numbers, and have the foresight to build a few permanent structures as symbols of a united people, both for their own reasons and in anticipation of invaders from across the seas.

Upon seeing obvious signs of a united people, impressions would have been different. But they didn't have a sense of ownership of the land. It never occurred to them that other humans may come and want what they had. They were unprepared.

It puzzles me why they couldn't envision such an invasion, when they would invade each others tribes routinely. They were not strangers to war and conflict including turf wars over hunting grounds. But they failed to unite as one people, probably due to the huge distances in Australia, but still... 40,000 years was plenty of time to get organised.

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by dragonsky on Friday March 31, 2017 @03:17AM (#14001768)
Nope. Was born here as were my parents. In no way could be classified as an immigrant.

By your standards even the Aborigines are immigrants, having arrived some 60000 years ago.

Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by coolg54321 on Friday March 31, 2017 @05:30AM (#14002246)
Then everyone on this planet are immigrants!
Re:Australia hasn't had a recession for over 25 years by strken on Friday March 31, 2017 @06:12AM (#14002424)
The defining feature of an immigrant is the act of immigration. Nobody born an Australian is an immigrant, regardless of whether their ancestors arrived by aeroplane, by boat, or by foot and canoe, unless they've chosen to emigrate. There is no technicality by which they can be considered an immigrant.