Re: Trav of Perth of Auckland #56

If you are going to make outlandish statements you should at least back them up with evidence instead of slagging off with wildly inaccurate assertions gleaned from urban myths. Otherwise people will think you are xenophobic as it appears you just hate Australia and Australians for no particular reason and will use any opportunity to demonstrate it.

maybe if n.z limited the people coming from overseas coming into our country, and paid people more here-that would decrease the number going into australia. Limit foreign people coming into our country, they are all getting citizenship and taking all our jobs. More crime and deaths. Winston peters was right.

Increasing human consumption of finite resources is absolutely unsustainable. Human population increases, irreplaceable resources decrease. How hard is that to understand? Cap population and focus on giving all people a good quality of life rather than breeding like flies for the economy.

The problem is NZ is the back door to Australia, those that cant get into Oz can get into NZ and once they do that the bCK door is open. I see it in my profession all the time, so called Kiwi's with thick russian or indian accents that have just done enough to get citizenship then leave for Australia.

So he wants to decrease the numbers of skilled people in the country, and increase the number of refugees.

Not that that isn't all nice and altruistic, but I get the feeling that'll backfire long term, big time.

I can't help but think that here in NZ we need to clamp down a bit more on immigration too, but not in a way that keeps out skilled workers!

I am highly motivated

Looks like the soup kitchens will be busy in New Zealand. The unemployment lines will be huge HAHA.

I've noticed that so many Kiwis seem to dislike Oz and Australians,then why do so many of you come here? I hope Kiwis never really learn to like us,we wouldn't be able to cope with the invasion.

Australia doesn't need mass immigration,Thompson has simply stated the obvious. New Zealanders should be treated like any other prospective immigrants.

Oh no not another anti-human rant from a one-eyed greenie.

Humans populations are not 'unsustainable'. With a free and capitalist market, humans find and generate remarkable solutions to all kinds of problems. Australia has enormous room for growth, despite large areas of desert

Kelvin is the MP for Wills a NW electorate in Melbourne with a safe Labor majority. He has a constituency of 135,000 with 32.5% born overseas One half of those are from Southern or S.E Europe. I guess not many Kiwis have found their way there. Perhaps emboldened by his minder being overseas or perhaps some of your contributors are right - it is geared to take the attention away from the Ocean Viking - we should treat his comments with the distain it deserves.