ABLE, this is to say, there were enough opportunities to gain employment, irrespective of how bad it pays, and WILLING, in order to please our government, who grant a variety of work and study visas which are only likely to progress to extension of an existing visa or through being "GRANTED" permanent residency, entitling them to Medicare, free- bulk billed dental and health care , access to the PBS ( gov subsidised medication, bulk-billed emergency and urgent care, bulk-billed physio, chiro, podiatry, dietician, psychology, ( necessary for report writing to ultimately gain disability benefits)billed radiology, nuclear medicine, pathology, maternal health care and even access to our NDIS.
All of which is considered a luxury by their own developing worlds standards. Their country of origin!
Are you still with me?
..... So inorder to remain in Australia they know they need to slog it out doing laborious unskilled/ lower- skilled work but there's a catch.
First the jobs need to be there to begin with, and the individual needs to demonstrate their commitment to becoming a useful migrant slave to have any chance of staying in Australia longer, with a view to remaining here permanently. The Aussie Green card + residency is the ultimate goal, but to be considered, they need to be able to prove they would be killed or suffer significant hardship if they return to their native countries or be a card- holding refugee.
For jobs to be available in the first place , if only casually, then our own workforce needed to be insufficient, introducing incentivised jobs partly funded by our government for specific minorities employers would otherwise not consider or be reluctant to employ.
To create gaps in our workforce, labour shortages, we need full-time employees to take more leave or simply refuse to work for peanuts.
See, Immigrants are keen and willing for at least a period of time, because their long-term goals are very important to them, to be able to become an Australian resident, they MUST demonstrate capacity to keep themselves, at least for a period of time so they're OK with working for peanuts because it's ultimately the Green card ( Medicare) card they want. May from Islamic countries will declare that they are openly gay, even when they aren't, anything to stay. Some will even go so far as to commit serious crimes, just to be able to stay, especially when they have nothing to return home to. Like the Chinese guy who threw boiling hot coffee from his Thermos unto the face of a 6 month old baby in Brisbane. This guy had been living and working in Australia on multiple visas, but the immigration department had finally decided to cramp down on immigration solicitors coaxing their clients to reapply via assorted loop-holes like student visas for 60 year olds who had no intentions of actually working, their goal being simply to stay as long as possible in order to support their permanent residency visa applications.
Now to get our Australian citizens taking more time off work to create vacancies for immigrants willing to work for peanuts our government did something very sneaky to keep workers flat on their backs, unable to work when struck-down with assorted ailments.
Let's see if any of you here can think what this may be, and it's indeed very clever, and was done in a manner backed by ATAG
Hint- read the following article
Pholcodine
The Value of OTC Medicines in Australia March 2014
Which found that non-prescription medicines currently save the Australian health economy $10.4 billion through avoided GP visits and productivity gains from reduced work absence and time savings in not having to visit the GP.
https://www.chpaustralia.com.au/Self-Care/Research
Now, that we've banned any OTC Medicines containing codein and or even it's derivatives, when we get sick, we can no longer "Soldier on" take a trip the the chemist on our way to work, purchase some pharmacy branded "cheap" generic of the proper codral cold & flu tablets, ( with codein) or even buy Benydril PE cough syrup that actually works ( with it's original ingredient pholcodine) .... so when we get an earache, toothache, bad cold or a flu, period pain, put our back out lifting something, migraine etc etc etc.... rather than pay $10 for something effective over the counter THAT ACTUALLY WORKED.... we now have to take the day off work, ( give a casual immigrant some temp work) and pay an immigrant GP to tell us what we already know that, " we are crook"
Just to get a work certificate inorder to have the day/week off.
The prescription pharmaceutical giants benefits too, as when we are required to see a GP, we usually expect and are given a prescription for medication we would have otherwise managed ourselves with OTC medicines previously.
This is why despite numerous studies that pharmacists are more than capable of prescribing medications themselves for common ailments, which effectively they once did, with OTC Medicines that ACTUALLY WORKED.
Our TGA will have us believe they removed Codein containing preparations for common ailments for our own good, despite customers needing to present ID, and be checked into a database to prevent individuals from chemist hopping and abusing these effective preparations.
The average Australian family trying to juggle their sick- leave between 3 kids and themselves is struggling to make ends meet.
Kids can no longer attend school with symptoms of "covid" even when they've tested negative whilst they remain symptomatic, anyone here ever had a child with a residual dry cough long enough after the virulent phase has passed?
That's how many sick days again, and are 10 enough for a single mother or father with 3 kids? Or even 1 kid. It's ridiculous!What on earth is the workable solution here?
Or is it a case of our government and OTHERS who sponsor political campaigns ie, Pharmaceutical companies would prefer we didn't take care of ourselves by popping into a pharmacy on our way to work or taking barking kids to school, and spend $10 to manage our own common and harmless ailments ourselves?
I don't believe our government and TGA withdrew effective products from chemists shelves because they were "concerned " some cooked junkie would drink the whole bottle of cough syrup or OD on Codral..... if anything, this would end the expense of maintaining their miserable lives, ..... I think there is multiple beneficiaries in this decision to rob parents of sleep and keep coughing kids home until they no longer cough .... and deny adults effective pain relief from common ailments that don't require a trip to the GP for a script + medical certificate.
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of them spreading COVID!