investment coroporation then yells that Qld needs to maintain immigration quotas in order help property prices to increase. similarly, developers yell that immigration needs to be escalated so they can proceed with there lucrative property developments which employ very few engineers. unions refuse to allow substantial numbers of migrant trademen into the country. more migrant IT professionals, constrcution management professionals and engineers are brought into Australia each year than blue collar union protected workers....migrant engineers are flooded into the country and then clive palmer announces a multi billion dollar coal project which is not employing local engineers in order to justify bringing in 800 chinese engineers....sydney's demographics have altered radically over the last decade in spite of only a modest increase in population. the nsw government has deliberately been harassing aust born white collar residents into unemployment so they leave sydney.... the lassiez faire style of management of immigration is pathetically inadequate and highly dysfunctional. the politicans are not trying to manage immigration ... they are cowardly assaulting the livlihoods of non union protected white collar workers... ie IT professionals, contruction mangement professionals and engineers.... meanwhile, skills shortages of blue collar union protected workers is crippling the growth of country... SH : 23 Dec 2010 5:20:45pm It seems that the conversation we have to have, is not being held. The writer and all of the commenters so far, have studiously avoided the symptoms of the social dysfunction and polarisation as seen in Europe as a result of large numbers of