I find the GreatDivide is often quite refreshing compared to the EmpNap's wanderings. 

Brian Ross wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2024 at 1:57pm:



Well, blow me down wiv a featha..... 

The NarrowPassage is as resolutely and tiresomely stupid and doctrinaire as you, cockwomble, parroting ignorant idiocies and  nutty non-sequiturs like you. 

The only difference is that he doesn't tut tut and roll his unfocused, rheumatic eyes like you. Oh, and he isn't excruciatingly vain like you and doesnt identify with  Maggie Smith OR her parasol.





You call him EmpNap - but do you understand the reference, cockwomble? No.

thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 3^rd, 2024 at 12:27pm:


Guess what, tgd? Making commonsense decisions tends to have a positive influence on one's life. Today, I went to do a blood test where a well-spoken indigenous lady took my Medicare card and the slip of paper the doctor had ordered for the test. After the blood test, I went over to Target where I was greeted at the door by the indigenous assistant. I went over to a food court where some indigenous server took my order, and I was seated by an Asian lady. Afterwards, I went across town and looked in Big W, Kmart, and TK-Maxx for a present to give to my parents' dogs. Although I was not served by anyone at TK-Maxx, both Big W and Kmart had indigenous door people to help me with my query. And then I went on to my doctor's appointment. 2 out of the 3 receptionists there were indigenous. (oh, btw, there were 6 African paintings being displayed on the walls of the waiting area).

Now, I don't know about you. But, the professionalism of these people were enough to convince me that race is not the factor of what is keeping "the gap" as wide as it is. It is just that the proportional rates of millionaire non-indigenous people far outweigh the proportion of millionaire indigenous people. However, the indigenous people that assisted me today were by no means looking like they were living in poverty conditions. Clean, well-presented, well-spoken and doing their jobs were what I noticed about them.

**If all indigenous people made that much effort to be presentable, law-abiding, courteous, educated, and ready to make a contribution to society, that gap would not exist. And that gap only exists because of the lack of motivation by indigenous people in larger proportion compared to non-indigenous to not help get themselves out of poverty.

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Amazing. More blathering pseudo-intellectual bullshit of irrelevancy. If you want to live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, of course you are not going to live very long lives. But if you want to sit on a generous welfare set specifically for your racial background, of course you are going to not look after yourself.

The moment we start cutting indigenous special privileges and make indigenous people be treated the same as non-indigenous people, you will see the smugness disappear from indigenous people's faces. If we implemented this tomorrow, I could imagine that the results of the Australian 2026 Census will reveal that most previous indigenous claimants no longer think they are indigenous.

Yoga instructors, dog handlers, and martial artists have been identified as roles that Australia needs to fill, according to a draft government migrant skills list.


Really.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jun 4^th, 2024 at 3:05pm:






“Jewellery Designer” also made the list.

Despite the nation’s increasing housing supply crisis, painters, roof tilers, bricklayers, stonemasons and some other tradespeople missed the cut, being placed on a draft list of roles requiring “more consultation”.

Despite several core parties to homebuilding being excluded from the list, the federal government has lofty building goals.

The Albanese government set a target of building 1.2 million new, well-located homes in the space of five years from July 1.

A BuildSkills Australia report sent shockwaves through the foundations of the housing industry in March, when the peak body forecast the country needed 90,000 more tradies to achieve the new home goal; and those tradies needed to materialise in three months’ time.

Urban Taskforce chief executive Stephen Fenn said yoga instructors and dog handlers elevated above bricklayers, glaziers and plasterers defied reality.

“Who are they talking to when they come up with these lists? All they need to do is ask the Reserve Bank how construction inflation is travelling … up almost 40 per cent since covid.

“The housing supply crisis, identified by the Federal Treasurer as a core challenge facing Australia, is underpinned by a skills crisis and labour shortages,” Mr Fenn said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/yogis-martial-arts-teachers-make-...

The immigration issue will never be fixed because the solution is toxic to those complaining about immigration.

And that's not even including the people who are against immigrants as individuals, rather than immigration, although there is quite a large crossover between the groups.

The English patience has run out, and the the world's fastest Indian is acting:-

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/i-will-halve-uk-net-migration-prime-min...

"Rishi Sunak last night vowed to halve net migration and continue slashing it every year of the next Parliament if he wins the General Election.

The Prime Minister for the first time committed to a rough figure on what he pledges to bring the number of legal arrivals down to, as he conceded they were 'too high'."