Gnads wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 11:04am:

A burden that both sides of politics have no problem bearing - their question to us in response is: 'So you want your affluent lifestyle to continue and as cheaply as possible or, at least on rates you can afford?'

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 11:44am:

How is it that so many Indic peoples run, say, gas stations?

Hardly a secret or a surprise... Oil companies use Indic contract labour-hire companies for all their low-level personnel employment.

On the matter of entry into Australia, these labour-hire contractors work with the Indian and Australian governments on behalf of the oil companies to secure the entry of Indic workers into Australia.

When visas for migrant workers are not available, they use the student visa process as a loophole to providing migrant workers with visas.

The advantage for Australia is lower overheads to run day-to-day operations at the outlet resulting in lower fuel prices and other costs than they otherwise would be.

While companies in Australia may be required to pay a minimum of $24.50 per hour, the minimum in rupees, while exponentially lower than that, is much higher than anything even many skilled workers within the Indosphere could earn.

Everyone's a winner... until it worked too well and triggered housing crises, which destroyed NZ's Ardern Government, has just destroyed Canada's Trudeau government and is set to do the same to the Albanese government.

Not that senior politicians won't get over it... they won't be short of employment opportunities as the likes of Andrews, McGowan and Perrottet have proved.

They did their jobs as Australian senior politicians - they kept most of us in the affluence to which we have become accustomed.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 12:40pm:



I did ask an Indian guy that very question in his petrol station.  His answer was - it is a no-skill business that can be run by an extended family/network.

Trolley pushers also home through Labour hire companies, owned or managed by particular ethnicities. This sort of work also suits student visa holders.

UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 1:24pm:

It reminds me of a story I'd read years ago in a local newspaper of a middle-aged homeless man forced to sleep rough during the day to be awake and alert at night for personal safety reasons.

A kind-hearted multiple-house owner offered to put him up rent-free in an empty house until he got back on his feet.

Weeks later the owner had to evict him... he'd trashed the joint.

Turns out he had a fixation with not cleaning anything, doing the dishes, or throwing out garbage - storing it instead in bedrooms that now reeked of rotten food, had eaten the carpet and permanently stained the walls.

Frank wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 4:04pm:

But we have achieved the bilateral political goal of establishing a willing underclass and its, effectively, endless means of replenishment as the formerly underclass ascends after 5-8 years.

Reminiscent of the deal offered to convicts in the late 18th and 19th centuries: freedom to remain in the colonies after 7 years, or a ticket of leave earlier for good behaviour or via a pardon.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 4:32pm:



Aye - but at what cost?  Hint - the development of an unwilling underclass and at the expense of massive REAL inflation.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 6:12pm:

The class stratification is one thing. The underclass today has full political rights and access to social, health and all other services. With an underclass of the the same culture and customs, this means social mobility.

With a culturally distant, unassimilating underclass with a significantly higher birth rate than the host population this means cultural and demographic transformation.   

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 7^th, 2025 at 6:57pm:

Only into countries whose political class wants demographic and cultural transformation.
Many countries do not and so have no large or even small scale migration.