anybody is sucking the tit of the government as suggested above it is big business, not the unemployed. I hope the migrants are able to join the union, pay taxes and stimulate local economies.They'll still make more money than they would otherwise and this would put paid to any suggestion of exploitation. Michael Crook some of us grew up with fathers who were shift workers, while we did not experience first hand what it was like for them. Some of us understand about fly in fly out. I have been posting to the crikey electronic soap box for years. How we finish up being governed says a lot about people like you Michael, with a gift for stringing words on a line! Edward James 02 43419140. I'm unsure why everyone is so agitated. Few would be making any comments if the media had not decided that this was yet another stuff up by Gillard and so, unlike Keane, used it to beat her over the head yet again. The miners got rid of Rudd, ABC, Fairfax and News will get rid of Gillard, and we pretend we are a democracy. Illiterate villagers in India and other countries have more political intelligence than the average Australian. There is a nauseous irony to this, where are the miners coming out and defending and congratulating Gillard? Not to be seen. I am at a loss to even imagine what the PM might do that would receive positive press and praise from the Twiggys