With the State of Emergency situation created in northern QLD with the recent severe flooding, we've seen frantic calls being made from local authorities for federal intervention to deal with much needed infrastructure repairs, ie roads, housing, etc. And we've also been hearing that there's a desperate shortage of available skilled labour to perform this urgent work.
Well I have an immediate cost effective solution; we've currently got overcrowded immigration detention centres full of able bodied adults who would jump at the chance to assist Australia in its time of need, by providing their labour. How many doctors, nurses, engineers, all round handymen etc do we have sitting idly by in these "prisons"?
What a way to a) circumvent the current skills shortage, and b) provide positive imagery to Australians of asylum seekers chipping in to do their bit to help out the nation that they're hoping to call home?
But alas it will never happen, instead the Government will continue to get wedged on asylum seekers by the mouth frothing populists, and as for the flood victims......well good luck to them....because they're going to need it!
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