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After a month-long vitriolic campaign against the Palestine movement, the Labor government and the right to protest, the Greens have followed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in capitulating to the ruling-class demand for a federal inquiry.

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

i don’t particularly like immigration for 2 reasons

it’s a band aid fix for our low fertility rate

you take away doctors and engineers from the original country, especially some of the poorest

July 2025, they knew the stakes were high. Across the continent, hospitals are losing nurses to overseas recruiters, clinics are short-staffed, and young medical graduates face the dilemma of staying to serve or leaving in search of better pay.

This isn’t just policy—it’s personal.

From Praia to Port Louis, governments and health professionals are sounding the alarm: Africa is losing too many of its trained health workers to international migration. And while global demand for medical personnel has soared in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries are bearing the cost.

https://www.afro.who.int/news/africa-speaks-out-who-consultations-bring-urgency-and-hope-health-worker-migration-crisis

Even countries like india with billions of people will be held back as hard working and high achieving people leave for western countries and hard working builders and labourers are going to middle eastern countries to build stadiums