The Melbourne CBD Is Over-run
Fri, 2020-08-21 17:39 — Mary Defoe
Larry Schlesinger, in the Financial Review (May 26, 2020) wrote a article entitled "Rental market rocked by insane student exodus." It pertained to the "grave" concerns that a clique of high-profile property developers in Melbourne have with the cessation of massive international student migration, due to COVID 19. Property sector denizens mentioned in it were, third on the Fin Review's "Young Rich List", Tim Gurner; Caroline Viney, previously of Grocon, currently the chief development officer of Vicinity Centres; and Shane Quinn, a partner with the commercial property group, Quintessential Equity. The Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Sally Capp, who was until recently the Victorian Executive Direct for the Property Council of Australia, added her angst.
growth lobby
Vicinity Centres
Caroline Viney
Shane Quinn
Sally Capp
Tim Gurner
property developer takeover
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Amazing speech: Senator Rennick speaks up on Australia's population, cold-war, warmongering in Middle East, and corporatisation
Thu, 2019-09-19 12:50 — admin
"The greatest threat to our environment is not carbon dioxide but unsustainable immigration. As the son of a farmer, I was taught from a young age about carrying capacity and never to overstock your paddocks. Yet immigration is doing just that, causing major city congestion and overdevelopment on our city fringes. Meanwhile, regional communities are struggling as opportunities, from the lack of infrastructure, go begging. While I agree with the government's wind-back of permanent visa places to 160,000 annually, the almost two million temporary visa holders living in Australia should also be reduced." "All war is a failure of diplomacy. The current military intervention in the Middle East has lasted almost as long as World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined. It has gone on for too long and needs to end. Bin Laden is dead, Saddam is dead and there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. ISIS will only be defeated when the world calls out the Milo Minderbinder who is funding them."
Senator Gerard Rennick
Australia's immigration problem
Australia's population problem
overstocking
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Australian universities' dependence on overseas students: too much of a good thing - Article by Birrell & Betts
In November 2018 The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) published an analysis of the higher education overseas student industry. It was framed around the remarkable growth in the share of commencing overseas university students to all commencing students over the years 2012 to 2016. This share increased from 21.8 per cent in 2012 to 26.7 per cent in 2016.
TAPRI
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Monash University's appeal to snobbery reflects deeper intellectual malaise
Thu, 2016-05-12 16:21 — Val Morgan
In early April, Monash University ran a television advertisement, promoting itself as an institution that challenges the 'status quo'. The advertisement sarcastically 'thanks' and therein belittles 'contented and settled' conventional people in different walks of life; they are accused of 'closing down ideas' and 'accepting things the way they are'. It is inferred that the pathology of social conformity, which presumably blights the great majority of us, is the antithesis of life at Monash, where students are admitted to an enlightened elite that is supposedly unconstrained by social norms and conventions. Implicitly, being unfettered by the mental torpor of the majority, this elite becomes the rightful moral guardian of the unenlightened crowd.
academic commercialisation
academic snobbery
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France drastically limits work permits for foreigners with French university educations
Sun, 2011-11-20 01:14 — Sheila Newman
"France isn't in the business of stealing educated elites from developing countries that need doctors and engineers." (French Minister responsible for immigration) In France, university education is free for citizens and for foreign students - but there are quotas on foreign students and preference is given to French citizens. In view of the global financial crisis, the French Minister in charge of immigration now aims to cut the number of work visas for foreign student professionals by half.
French immigration policy
population policy in France
skill poaching
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Going easy on foreign students for their fees?
Wed, 2011-03-23 11:16 — Bandicoot
Dr Gigi Foster says her statistical analysis reveals that international students are being allowed to underperform and this is being camouflaged to an extent by grade inflation. The dumbing-down of our universities is due to an over-reliance on foreign students, and they will eventually be victims of their own success in luring overseas dollars. Amanda Vanstone says students are getting a "free ride"?
Photo source:http://www.abc.net.au/sundayprofile/stories/s1340219.htm
skills shortages
Gigi Foster
UNNSW
Amanda Vanstone
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Political, democratic problems with multiculturalism - response to John Marlowe
Australians have found it very hard to protest against high immigration because of constant subtle messages from government and media implying that they had no right to object. They have been given the idea that there was nothing special about them that gave them the right to object. They only lived here. Although only Australians might vote in governments, the importance of this was subsumed to a cult of plutocracy, where governments prioritised commercial and corporate demands over the wishes of the actual electorate. The mainstream press (the ABC, the Murdoch Press, the Fairfax Press) promoted a cult of elite authoritarianism and the official alternative press never really encouraged questioning of this process on issues of real dissent. And the elite authorities all endorsed 'multiculturalism'.
Pino Migliorino
FECCA
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Unusual lost cat found by Japanese students
Wed, 2009-06-24 12:55 — Sheila Newman
Subject: Lost Cat found........... posted by Japanese students renting in Brunswick, Victoria. And feeding it cat food too! More inside on this amazing story.See also: Living with wild animals
Tortoro
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