Newspoll hands Gillard more bad news

[IQS.RLOW]

It's still 'next week'

TV crews rushed to the PM’s office as rumors swept Parliament that Julia Gillard had received the tap on the shoulder.

Reliable source tells me JG is about to appoint Shorten as treasurer. More to come

[Aussie]

I could not find where you posted that you had inside oil that Gillard would be toast by now. I guess you are asking for an extension of time. Care to nominate exactly when it will happen? By Saturday of this week?

[IQS.RLOW]

Go fetch

[Aussie]

Go fetch

A full stop?

[IQS.RLOW]

Try a brain first, then a life and then deodorant to start with and work your way up to grammarnazi extraordinaire

[Rorschach]

Some companies are abusing 457s or using illegal immigration for labour... and you can't really disagree that Australians should have these jobs first.

Not that either of the major parties have a clue what to do about it or the inclination to.

[IQS.RLOW]

Some companies are abusing 457s or using illegal immigration for labour... and you can't really disagree that Australians should have these jobs first.

Not that either of the major parties have a clue what to do about it or the inclination to.

If they are then Gillard needs to produce the evidence of that abuse. Bringing in 457 workers is not an easy or cheap process.

[Aussie]

Some companies are abusing 457s or using illegal immigration for labour... and you can't really disagree that Australians should have these jobs first.

Not that either of the major parties have a clue what to do about it or the inclination to.

If they are then Gillard needs to produce the evidence of that abuse. Bringing in 457 workers is not an easy or cheap process.

Okay. Do explain BO. I am all eyes.

[IQS.RLOW]

I don't know why I bother...you are way too stupid to educate


Prime Minister Julia Gillard is being accused of using rubbery figures to justify her call for a crackdown on 457 visa rorts.

Today Ms Gillard told a union conference that temporary overseas work was growing faster than employment.

She said temporary overseas worker numbers were up 20 per cent compared with the same time last year, whereas employment growth for the period was only 1 per cent.

But demographer and government adviser Peter McDonald has told 7.30 the statement does not bear scrutiny.

He says that is because the retirement of baby boomers means Australia starts each year 140,000 workers short.

"If the labour force grows by 1 per cent as the Prime Minister says, that's about 120,000 [people]," he said.

"So we take the 120,000 growth, 140,000 we have to make up, [making a] combined 260,000 new workers that we have to get into the labour force, and 457s make up about 40,000 of that."

[Aussie]

So....where is the evidence which supports what I challenged you on which was this:

Bringing in 457 workers is not an easy or cheap process.