issues-in-australia

Friday, July 29, 2011

SBS INSIGHT: MIGRATION BOOM

Source:

http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/417#overview

[Accessed on 29 July 2011]

SBS INSIGHT: SOME THOUGHTS:

CASE 1: Natalia Garcia is a qualified engineer who is working as a cleaner. She came to Australia from Colombia in 2008. She studied English before applying for permanent residency under the general skilled migration program. Natalia was granted permanent residency in 2010, but has been unable to obtain work in her field, despite engineering being one of the most sought-after skills in the current labour climate.

[ Source: http://www.sbs.com.au/insight/episode/index/id/417#overview ]

Well, first and foremost, do not blame the degree that you took as 'useless', sometimes you need some creativity in order to find good job opportunity:

1- Engineering can be a very wide field, yet it can also be a very narrow field of specialization, henceforth, IF you specialized in certain field during your study. e.g. Civil Engineering in Environmental. Then you may only find job in that area, as employer may be reluctant to offer you anything else, other than your specialization, as they fear that you may not have the knowledge in other specialization (even though the degree spell 'Civil Engineering' - noted that Civil Engineering can also be a very wide subject, as well as, a very narrow one) and/or the knowhow to do so, e.g. Civil Engineering in Civil Hydraulics, Civil Engineering in Transport Systems, Civil Engineering in Risk Analysis, and so forth.

2- What makes it worst is when you do not have 'work experiences', says for a few years at a certain engineering based company, so what make the employer sure that you can perform, when you yourself are not sure if you can perform?!

3- So the next option, is to do a Master degree, and specialized in one of the many specialization in Civil Engineering subject or field of study. Examples:

Civil Engineering in Environmental
(e.g. Sustainable Management, Water and Waste Water Management, etc.)
Civil Engineering in Civil Hydraulics
Civil Engineering in Transport Systems
Civil Engineering in Risk Analysis,
Civil Engineering in Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings

4- Another possible option is to do a certificate or diploma (in teaching) to add to your degree, and possibly be a teacher, and teach maths, or science, at the primary and/or secondary school in Australia.

5- Most of my friends would also continue their study and do an MBA, says in banking, or finance, or accounting, and then enter the business community, and/or work in an Multi-National Company after graduating, or work in a bank, or company. The point here is that, once you have a higher degree (and especially if that is acquired in one of the many Australia university here), employer would be happy to take you in.

CASE 2: Ram Upadhyaya is a Nepalese civil engineer, who applied to come to Australia as a skilled migrant in 2009, via a migration agent. He is currently employed through the Regional Migration Scheme and is now living and working in Nhill in far western Victoria as a town planner.

[Note: I could not say that everyone will be as lucky as Ram Upadhaha, but the above tips/advised as discussed, will help those looking for job opportunity in Australia].

Saturday, July 9, 2011

VANCOUVER (Lewd / Pervert) Riots Kissing Couple! (Now in Australia !)

Comment:

CHEAP and dirty, how could the guy and his girl did such a thing, when the reason people 'protest' in the first place, is to get some 'right' that was ignored.

Anyhow, IF that has happened in other countries, such as, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, China, and even Singapore, or South Korea, they would be prosecuted in court for indecency - worst thing that could happened is being 'stepped' or stomped to death by the street boys, for such a lewd act!

No respect for the 'safety' of the 'girl' that he said he got so hooked up with. CHEAP!

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Vancouver (Lewd/Pervert) Riots Kissing Couple

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/25964916/love-among-the-ruins/

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Comment:

Western Australia (WA) Lewd Kissing Man is Taking the Girl Home !!

Sorry I could not enlarged this picture, as it is so shameful and lewd to see !

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Western Australia (WA) riot kiss man brings his girl home

Ben Spencer, The West Australian

July 9, 2011, 8:30 am

The Perth man who captured the world's attention (for the wrong reason) with a kiss in the middle of the Vancouver riots has revealed everything "just clicked" when he met the Canadian woman with whom he shared the passionate embrace. Three weeks after the event he reluctantly admits changed his life for ever, amateur comedian Scott Jones is still in demand but says his 15 minutes of fame will inevitably come to an end. And that, it seems, is just the way he wants it.

The 29-year-old former Aquinas College student will be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when he arrives in Los Angeles on Monday after a three-week holiday across California. Beside him on

the popular NBC program will be Alexandra Thomas, the Canadian woman with whom he was snapped kissing during the riots after the Vancouver Canucks' loss to the Boston Bruins in an ice hockey final.

The pair are set to fly to Melbourne on Thursday, where they hope to continue the relationship that started in a Vancouver bar about seven months ago. "I was working at a cafe and my fellow employees and I had decided to meet up for drinks," Jones told The Weekend West from San Diego. "Alex was flatmates with one of my co-workers, so she came along, too. As soon as we met, we just clicked."

Jones has hired publicist Max Markson, the agent who once acted for Lara Bingle and party boy Corey Worthington, to handle the countless media requests that have come his way after what he now refers to as "the riot kiss episode". He laughed off claims the kiss had been staged, arguing video footage of the incident was proof it was a spontaneous moment.

"I had no idea the kiss would get so much attention. When we first saw it on the net, we thought it was hilarious that we had made the news but thought it was just one of many other photos of the riot. Jones said he hoped to start a pub tour in St Kilda when he arrives back in Melbourne.

[Comment: The kiss staged or not, is all for the wrong reason, all too wrong to be accepted, or morally right!]

Monday, May 16, 2011

Cabbie Brutally Bashed Grandmother (in Melbourne) !

http://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/latest/a/-/newshome/9451531/cabbie-brutally-bashed-grandmother/
(16 MAY 2011)

Cabbie Brutally Bashed Grandmother AAP May 16, 2011, 2:23 pm

A Melbourne taxi driver has admitted brutally bashing an 81-year-old woman who accepted a lift to a doctor's appointment. Zainab Sarwari was left on the roadside with her bag and walking frame scattered around her after the attack in Melbourne's southeast last year.

The taxi driver had repeatedly punched her before throwing her out of the taxi at Noble Park on August 15, 2010, Ms Sarwari said in a witness statement tendered in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court. Ms Sarwari said she crawled to the front door of a nearby house where a woman called her an ambulance.

She suffered two black eyes, swelling on her forehead and bruising on her hands and shoulders in the assault.

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Bhupinder Singh pleaded guilty to kidnapping and bashing 81-year-old Zainab Sarwari

Ms Sarwari was left bruised and battered after the attack

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Bhupinder Singh, 24, pleaded guilty on Monday to intentionally causing injury and false imprisonment.

Ms Sarwari said she accepted the lift while waiting at a bus stop, but became upset when he did not appear to be driving in the direction of her appointment.

"He was driving me around some places that were very deserted," she said in her statement.

"I was very upset and I took off my seat-belt so that I could get out of the taxi."

But Ms Sarwari said as she tried to open the door, the

driver grabbed her hand and squeezed it tightly, holding down her seatbelt so she couldn't move.

"He started driving faster after this and I was shouting at the driver the whole time in my own language and making body gestures to let me out," she said.

"I was saying `stop, stop', and I was very scared not knowing where he was taking me and what he was going to do to me."

When the taxi driver stopped, he punched her twice in the face, then held her down and continued throwing punches. "He kept on punching me and hit me a lot of times and it was hurting me very much," she said.

The driver then opened the door, removed her seat-belt and pushed her out.

"The next thing I remember is when I opened my eyes I was on the ground and my bag and walking frame were on the ground around me," she said.

"I think I must have become unconscious when he pushed me out of the car."

She said the incident left her too scared to live alone or go out alone, and she now suffered dizziness and headaches. Magistrate Peter Reardon bailed Singh to appear at the Victorian County Court on July 28 for a pre-sentence hearing.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Again Student Bashed by Gang (in Melbourne) !

http://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/latest/a/-/newshome/9260812/student-bashed-by-gang/
(26 April 2011)

Student Bashed by Gang
Yahoo!7 April 26, 2011, 5:43 pm

A trainee pilot has been savagely bashed by a gang in Melbourne's CBD in broad daylight. International student Rajat Tyagi said he is now too scared to stay in Melbourne because it is no longer safe. The student pilot from New Delhi was confronted as he left his apartment in Flinders Street on Sunday morning by five men he describes as African.

They surrounded him and bashed him unconscious using knuckledusters. He told 7NEWS: "I want to go home as soon as possible because we are not safe here." "They hit me twice in the mouth, and my whole lips were hanging down. I just lost my tooth - i don't know where my tooth is, maybe in my stomach, maybe on the floor - I couldn't find it." And he said he is still in severe pain. "I cant eat anything, I cant drink anything and my room mates are feeding me milk just to survive so I can live," he explained. Rajat hopes the incident was captured on CCTV.

He said he has heard no more from police since they arrived half-an-hour after the assault, and told him he was one of several similar assaults that night. Rajat is now unable to sit his flying exams after Easter because of the bashing. He said the year-and-a-half in Australia has been wasted. He now intends to return home to see his family and never return. "I just came here for a good life," he said. "But i'm getting this."

Monday, April 25, 2011

Australia Immigration Policy

Comment:

1- Another of Australia 'SICK' (lunatic) immigration POLICY ?! Now thats what I call an 'exploitative immigration policy', telling the doctor to divorce his wife, or that, his sick wife must stay behind?! Thats cruel !

2- Also telling the doctor to ditch (divorce) his faithful sick wife, and go serve the Australia community, and thats going to make the doctor happy ?!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/9253693/divorce-sick-wife-doctor-told/
(25 April 2011)

'Divorce Sick Wife', Doctor was Told
KIM MACDONALD, The West Australian April 25, 2011, 7:07 am

A foreign doctor who moved to rural WA to help fill the skills shortage, and now wants permanent residency, has been told he cannot stay in Australia unless he divorces his dying wife.
Philippines-born Cesar Sofocado is appealing for a compassionate approach to his family's permanent residency application after the Immigration Department told him it would be rejected because of his wife's terminal illness.

The Catholic doctor said he was advised that the only guarantee to permanent residency would come through divorcing or legally separating from his wife, who has advanced cancer. Without any legal ties to her husband, Mary Sofocado would be forced to leave the country to die alone in the Philippines. "I married my wife for richer and poorer and in sickness and health - that is the vow I took," Dr Sofocado said.

"I want to show my daughters we are a family and we don't leave each other for any reason." Mrs Sofocado said she was only seeking palliative care and would not be a burden on the public purse. "My only wish is for my daughters to grow up in Australia," Mrs Sofocado said.

The family moved to WA in 2005 for Dr Sofocado's job at Geraldton Regional Hospital. He worked in Dampier, Karratha and Bunbury before moving to Ellenbrook Medical Centre. The family began their permanent residency application in 2008 but the department did not start considering their application until last year, a year after Mrs Sofocado developed breast cancer. Dr Sofocado said their first case officer erred by advising them to change their application from visa subclass 175 to 176 on learning of his wife's cancer.

The second visa category, 176, did not allow the right to appeal against a rejection related to health matters. "We feel our family, after our share of work and contribution in 'areas of need' in WA, is being treated unjustly," he said. Dr Sofocado said their second case officer told them divorce or separation was the ONLY solution under their subclass 176 application and the only guarantee under other categories. His medical registration is due to expire in June... The Immigration Department did not respond.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

ILLEGAL Immigrants Protest on Rooftop !

Comment:

I am an immigrant too, but I am a professional, and usually professional like myself think twice or more, before making the choice to come to Australia. Why? Because I have my families to worry (will they find the Western culture welcoming, will they find the home food and other ingredients that they needed for their cooking), I have my children future to worry (whether they will get enough religious education and good environment to grow up, one that is free from drugs influence, bullying, alcoholism, etc.), then I have myself to worry, will I be able to secure a decent job opportunity, one that has a good working environment, one that has minimal racism abuse, and so forth. And I definitely will arrive in a good workable aeroplane (not in an insecure boat ride).

Also a professional will contribute to the development and progress of Australia, in term of economic development, cultural diversity and understanding, and even science and medical development (if he possesses medical skills) - See ALL the differences (between a professional and a junky) ?!

[Note: Also see Australia Immigration Policy on Foreign Professional]
http://issues-in-australia.blogspot.com/2011/04/australia-immigration-policy.html

So, it is RIGHT that Australia refuse entry to these illegal immigrants, I am a fair man, and I speak fairly, IF these illegal immigrants create trouble (or IF anyone is a trouble maker, Australian or not), then he/she should be dealt with, in accordance to the law of the state. Just send these illegal immigrants back to where they belongs, it’s the 21st century, it’s the new millennium, and government around the world don’t just prosecute them, least they themselves are the ‘criminals’ and running away from the law (and migrate to Australia; Putting the life of their wives, children, and themselves in a little boat, on the high sea; How can that be morally good ?!).

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/9248576/food-denied-to-rooftop-protesters-witnesses/ (23 April 2011)

Food Denied to Rooftop Protesters: Witnesses
ABC April 23, 2011, 8:04 am

As a protest enters its fourth day at Sydney's Villawood detention centre, police are reportedly no longer allowing food to be thrown to the four asylum seekers still on a roof at the facility. A witness at the scene also says ambulance workers have stopped supplying the men with food and water, while guards have been using loud speakers overnight to keep the men awake.

Twenty-two detainees were yesterday taken to Silverwater Prison in Sydney's west for questioning over this week's riot. Police say they have not yet made any arrests or laid charges. The Australian Federal Police says its emphasis is on the security and safety of the protesters and that no further comment is appropriate.

The men are believed to be protesting against their failed visa applications. The protest reached its peak when a small protest on Wednesday afternoon developed into a full-scale riot in which close to 100 asylum seekers burned down nine buildings at the centre. A computer room, kitchen and medical centre were destroyed by fire and a large gas cylinder also exploded. A former Villawood guard told ABC Television's Lateline program on Thursday that problems at the Sydney centre have been building for some time and he is not surprised about the riots.

In a statement, Serco, the private operator of detention centres in Australia, acknowledged an increased number of arrivals and longer periods of detention have placed significant pressures on their operations. The company said it has provided additional training to staff beyond contractual requirements and has invested $1.5 million in staff training.

Villawood is the second Australian immigration detention centre to be set on fire this year. A Federal Government-ordered review into riots at the Christmas Island centre in March, which saw tear gas and bean bag rounds being fired at asylum seekers, will now also investigate the Villawood protests.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Corby Could be FREED !

Comment:

Horray! CORBY will be freed soon… Oh yes, she is white, she is Caucasian, she has the so-called Australian people backing her back home in Australia (don’t know what people), she carried the bag (which content 4 kg of marijuana - no wait its not her bag, she carried some Asian guy bag, so nice of her, so how much is the deal for the bag ?! The court found her guilty), yet she is NOT guilty, she is Australia national heroine now. Poor white girl, but its never poor black or yellow girl… Good, very good !

Oh is it double standard? What if she is of Africa or Asian origin, will she also get the same (media and political intervention) special treatment ?? Think about it for a second, or have you already made up your mind ?!

http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/latest/9209991/corby-could-be-freed-lawyer/

(17 April 2011)

CORBY Could be FREED: Lawyer AAP April 17, 2011, 7:11 am

Schapelle Corby could be released immediately from an Indonesian prison if a recommendation by the country's Supreme Court to halve her sentence is accepted, the convicted drug smuggler's lawyer says. Corby's lawyer Iskandar Nawing told Fairfax newspapers the country's Supreme Court has recommended 10 years be cut from her sentence. "If the president signs off on it, with the time Corby has served already she will be eligible for parole. I will immediately make the arrangement based on the clemency." The recommendation was handed to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last July and its contents have been the subject of much speculation.

Under Indonesian law, an application for presidential clemency must be lodged first with the Supreme Court, which assesses the application before providing guidance to the president to accept or reject. Corby was arrested six and a half years ago after more than four kilograms of marijuana was found in her bodyboard bag at Bali airport. She has lost a succession of legal appeals, and a clemency request to Indonesia's president is her last chance. Neither the Supreme Court nor Dr Yudhoyono's state secretariat would comment to Fairfax on Mr Nawing's claims, nor confirm when Dr Yudhoyono would make a decision.