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Australian lad, often sarcastic with a dark sense of humour. Gen X with open mind; into economics, politics, technology, spirituality, humanity, philosophy etc.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden..

You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues.

As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18.

You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing.

When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients.

This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017.

When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000.

He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland.

At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine.

Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@AlboMP I know you will enjoy your 10% salary raise on an already overpaid position. We have a cost of government crisis.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@Cryptinin @izamamaa They were conquerors. Think higher IQ, think better technology, think better standards of living, think civilisation, think every single thing you take for granted today.

[The Cyberpunk Dingo @cyberpunkdingo]

This is one of the biggest scams in Australia and every Australian should be aware.

Australia's biggest tech companies are laying off local workers and shipping their jobs to India, while simultaneously telling the government there are not enough skilled tech workers in the country.

The government then responds by handing out tens of thousands of visas to overseas tech workers, many from the same countries those jobs were just sent to. And throughout all of this, Australian technology graduates are entering a job market that is increasingly stacked against them.

The Commonwealth Bank made this embarrassingly visible in 2025. The bank retrenched over 300 Australian technology workers, then within weeks began advertising the exact same roles at its Bangalore subsidiary. The Finance Sector Union called it a direct breach of the enterprise agreement. Telstra cut 650 domestic roles around the same period while expanding its outsourcing relationships with Indian technology firms. These are Australia's largest and most profitable corporations, not struggling startups cutting corners to survive.

According to the Australian Information Industry Association, around half of all Australian organisations are already offshoring IT functions, with AI and cybersecurity being the most commonly exported disciplines.

So where does the skills shortage claim come from? Largely from the same industry groups whose members are doing the offshoring. And the government has responded to that lobbying by dramatically expanding the skilled visa intake. The Skills in Demand visa, which replaced the old Temporary Skill Shortage 482 visa at the end of 2024, recorded 86,240 applications in its first full year, a jump of 34.5 percent in a single year. Over 68,000 visas were granted, with 119,440 holders now working in Australia under the program. Indian nationals alone received 12,360 of those grants, a 59 percent increase year on year. ICT roles including Software Applications Programmer, ICT Business Analyst, and Cybersecurity Specialist are consistently among the highest-volume categories in the program.

The minimum salary attached to the main visa stream is $76,515. That sounds reasonable on paper, but what it actually does over time is set a ceiling disguised as a floor. When you flood a sector with temporary workers, the going market rate for that sector gradually drifts downward toward whatever the threshold allows. Australian government reform documents from 2025 acknowledged this explicitly, stating that employer-sponsored migration had been suppressing wages in certain sectors because businesses were using the visa pipeline instead of investing in training or raising pay to attract local workers.

Then there is the question of why Australians are not training in these fields in the numbers the industry claims to need. Australia produces around 7,000 IT graduates annually. That figure has flatlined because the career math stopped working. Wages are being held down, entry-level roles are disappearing offshore or being filled through visa programs, and young Australians are drawing the rational conclusion that technology is not a reliable career path. The industry then points to the resulting shortage as justification for more visas. The cycle feeds itself.

The workers being brought in under these programs are also not exactly thriving. A major 2026 survey of nearly 10,000 migrant workers across Australia found that two thirds were being paid less than they were legally owed, with a quarter underpaid by more than ten dollars per hour. The reason this goes largely unreported and unchallenged is straightforward: complaining about your employer when your right to remain in the country depends on that employer's continued sponsorship is not a real option for most people. The visa structure makes workers compliant in a way that no union-busting campaign could reliably achieve.

An absolutely monumental scam at the highest level.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@cyberpunkdingo Slavery never really ended.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@DrewPavlou I'm sure there is a taxpayer funded Grant for that somewhere?

https://t.co/UwMRPF4PfP

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Are we getting this yet.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

Fish balls, not meatballs.
https://t.co/HtWH1TS25I

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@DavidShoebridge We fund both ends of the craziness.
https://t.co/UwMRPF4PfP

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@JoeLongBalls When they discover all of the nuclear weapons we have pointed at ourselves they will fly by knowing as such yes.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

JIZRA!
https://t.co/UwMRPF4PfP

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@Ausbobsmit This is your typical Jizra payments to the Jihadists so they keep a lid on the native population beheadings.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@SwipeWright @leonmethvin It is in Australia. You go to jail for even mouthing some words they find hurty.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@SwipeWright Just wait until you really need to rely on critical infrastructure. Pax Silica will ensure back doors will be available to foreign intel and Rad Group ghouls.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

Can hear the Australian economy grinding to a complete stop yet?

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@Larryjamieson_ Start a SMSF and flip all shares to bullion.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

I've been building home PC's for over 20 years. It's sad to see the outright collapse of an entire industry. The thin client subscription model is all that is left.
https://t.co/oFyfdRdNDi

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@archer_rs & Summer is not.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@CraigSarg73 The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[TaxFodder @Coldhardface]

@RobertStevenso9 @coolhand_newman You need to put the meth pipe down bro. Get some help.