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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.