Serious [ Singapore News ] Singaporeans Beware of Indians : Australia Reduce Immigration To Solve Overcrowding. Singapore Plan For More CECA Indian Immigrants

grandtour · Nov 21, 2018

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Australian prime minister plans to reduce immigration, citing urban crowding

Published 20 November, 2018

SYDNEY — Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia has proposed that the government impose stricter limits on immigration to control overcrowding in the country’s major cities.

Population growth has played a major role in the country’s economic success, but people in Australia’s biggest cities are alarmed about an influx of immigrants, Mr Morrison said Monday night (Nov 19) at the Bradfield Oration, a speech delivered to influential figures in Sydney’s business, media and urban planning sectors.

“They are saying: enough, enough, enough,” he said. “The roads are clogged, the buses and trains are full. The schools are taking no more enrollments.”

grandtour · Nov 21, 2018

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The Big Read: From the boondocks to waterfront town, Punggol grapples with growing pains and traffic jams

As Punggol morphs into one of the largest housing estates in Singapore with a slew of new developments, many say its transport woes continue to persist unabated.

Slip road on Tampines Expressway into Punggol. (Photo: Gaya Chandramohan)

By Victor Loh
19 Nov 2018 12:00AM (Updated: 19 Nov 2018 06:20AM)

SINGAPORE: Travelling from Sengkang to Punggol should take 20 minutes by bus, but for Ms Denise Wong’s husband, the journey home typically lasts an hour.

"My husband is already exhausted after work, and the traffic jam tires him out even more,” the 33-year-old homemaker lamented.

In the five years since they bought a new Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat at Punggol Way, the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and North East Line serving the town have also gotten more crowded, Ms Wong said.

In fact, she is already thinking about moving out of the new town, which has become too “hot and crowded” due to the urban sprawl:

“The transportation, facilities and malls are not growing as fast as the population. That has caused a lot of inconvenience,” she said.

grandtour · Nov 21, 2018

28,000 New Tech Jobs For Indians @ Punggol

https://www.businessinsider.sg/sing...e-digital-economy-heres-what-it-will-be-like/
Singapore’s new Punggol Digital District promises 28,000 jobs for the digital economy – here’s what it will be like

Jessica Lin
January 22, 2018

Punggol looks set to become Singapore’s Silicon Valley.

A masterplan for the upcoming Punggol Digital District (PDD) revealed on Sunday (Jan 21) gave a peek into Singapore’s plans to make the north-east region a key driver of digital competitiveness.

Development for the PDD in Punggol North is set to begin this year, and is expected to help create 28,000 jobs in different sectors of the digital economy by completion.

GIIS Global Indian International School @ Punggol

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...d-by-burning-of-rubber-material-global-indian
Punggol construction site fire likely caused by burning of rubber material: Global Indian International School

Published
May 17, 2017, 2:25 pm SGT
Melissa Lin

SINGAPORE - The fire that broke out at a Punggol construction site on Tuesday (May 16) appeared to have been caused by the burning of rubber.

The rubber was meant for water retention tanks that were to be installed in the carpark of the Global Indian International School (GIIS) site, the school said in a statement on Wednesday.

grandtour · Nov 21, 2018

winnipegjets · Nov 21, 2018

We have Changistan. Now, prepare for Punggolstan. Soon, sinkapore will have to change its name to sinkastan to please our Hindu leader Modi.

Hypocrite-The · Nov 21, 2018

grandtour said:
https://www.todayonline.com/world/a...lans-reduce-immigration-citing-urban-crowding

Australian prime minister plans to reduce immigration, citing urban crowding

Published 20 November, 2018

SYDNEY — Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia has proposed that the government impose stricter limits on immigration to control overcrowding in the country’s major cities.

Population growth has played a major role in the country’s economic success, but people in Australia’s biggest cities are alarmed about an influx of immigrants, Mr Morrison said Monday night (Nov 19) at the Bradfield Oration, a speech delivered to influential figures in Sydney’s business, media and urban planning sectors.

“They are saying: enough, enough, enough,” he said. “The roads are clogged, the buses and trains are full. The schools are taking no more enrollments.”

All talk only lah. Just for show bcos erections next year. No different to last singkieland erection. After erection the flood gates open again n open wider

Hypocrite-The · Nov 21, 2018

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A former senior immigration official has blasted Prime Minister Scott Morrison's attempts to curb population pressures in Australian cities, saying Mr Morrison's decisions as immigration minister "drove population to our cities".
The Government's latest plan to address Australia's rapid population growth is to curb permanent migration.
But Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the Department of Immigration, says Mr Morrison made three key decisions which have contributed to the population problem Australia now faces.
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"He locked in [the] migration program at 190,000 per annum by linking it to the budget," Mr Rizvi told 7.30.

"He significantly boosted the level of overseas students, who drove the increase in net overseas migration, particularly to Sydney and Melbourne.

"Thirdly, he reduced the usage of regional visas very significantly, the very visas that he now says we need to increase the usage of."
Mr Rizvi said immigration policy needed to be thought of as a, "long-term lever, not just something you whipped together before an election".
Mr Morrison has signalled a cut to permanent migration by approximately 30,000, the biggest reduction to Australia's migration program since the 1990s, according to Mr Rizvi.
It is the latest chapter in the population conversation in lieu of any formal policy announcement, designed to soothe city-siders stuck in traffic, but not malign the business community, or regional areas, who need growth.
In February, Mr Morrison said a cut of 80,000, "would cost the budget $4 billion or $5 billion over four years".
Alan Tudge: 'People are feeling it'
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Population Minister Alan Tudge told 7.30 Australia's migration problems predated Mr Morrison's time as immigration minister.

"I think you have to look back a little further when migration took a step change increase in 2007 under Kevin Rudd," he said.

"Now we have reduced that level, what we are signalling here is that we want to do a much more bottom-up approach to migration reduction and that will probably result in a reduction of maybe 30,000 or so, but the process will determine that."
Immigration and population

What a cut to permanent migration would actually mean — for communities and the budget.
He said the new plan is to consult with the states ahead of the next COAG meeting on whether they needed more or less population.
"This is a process and we've announced that we are going to be writing to the premiers and the chief ministers and there's a COAG meeting in December and we will be announcing our full policy next year," Mr Tudge said.
"The real challenge is at the Federal level, we control the major population growth lever which is migration, while the states and territories have responsibility of delivering the infrastructure, roads and the schools to cater for that population growth.
"Sometimes you get a mismatch between the aspirations of the state governments and what the Federal Government might do.
"This is a balance we need to strike because overall, migration has been good for our economic growth … at the same time though, when most of the migration is going to cities it puts enormous pressure on those cities, and people are feeling it."
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Hypocrite-The · Nov 21, 2018

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Most Sydneysiders and Melburnians will barely notice a permanent migration cut flagged by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Key points:

Permanent migration represents less than half of population growth
Much of Sydney and Melbourne's large migration growth focused around universities and migrant communities
Government admitted cutting migration will hit budget

Population growth is driven far more by foreign students and births, after all.
Who told us that? Scott Morrison.
In May, just as conservative voices in the Liberal Party were calling for a cut to permanent migration, the then-treasurer played down the significance of permanent visas.
"The permanent immigration intake is not a big factor when it comes to population growth," he told radio station 3AW.
"Temporary immigration and natural increases are 80 per cent of population increases."
Now Prime Minister, Mr Morrison has changed his tune.
"The roads are clogged, the buses and trains are full," he said in a speech on Monday night, confirming a commitment to reducing permanent migration.
"We will look to make an adjustment as we go forward into next year and this should not be surprising."
Not that big
Permanent migration is a sizeable component, but not quite half, of Australia's population growth.
Growth in the year to March was two-and-a-half times the size of the permanent migration program — 381,000 all up.
The permanent migration program granted 163,000 visas last year.
Natural increase, or the number of births after you subtract deaths, was at 144,000.
The other major driver is the growth in the number of temporary residents in the country, such as foreign students or workers who spend a year or more in Australia.
Given the way temporary visas interact with permanent visas — for example an international student getting a job then eventually moving onto a permanent visa — changes must be made to the migration program as a whole.
In fact, more than half of permanent visa recipients are already in Australia on temporary visas.
Mr Morrison flagged in his speech this may also be part of the changes.

"To contemplate our permanent visa settings would also require upstream changes to how many people are coming in on temporary visas as well," the Prime Minister said.

Concentrations
Although migration is just a fraction of population growth, it is uneven across the country.
That means some parts of Australia have changed rapidly while others have changed little.
Out of Australia's influx of migrants in recent years, far more individuals have landed in Sydney and Melbourne than other cities.
And it's not just raw numbers — the proportion of each city's population represented by these new arrivals is also higher than other places, as migrants are drawn to work opportunities and community networks.
Yet vast swathes of Sydney and Melbourne have avoided this influx.
Instead, migrants have concentrated themselves into particular locations.
In Melbourne, major growth in 2016-17 was evident around Monash University in the south-east, as well as the CBD.
The likelihood that many of these migrants will be international students again highlights the significance of temporary visas to any congestion debate.

In Sydney, the migrant influx was concentrated around Parramatta.

At what cost
Minister for Cities Alan Tudge conceded this morning there would be a hit to the budget by a contraction in the migration program.
Despite being pressed, he would not go into the detail.
Previous reports placed a 30,000-person cut to the migration program as costing the budget $500 million.
Mr Morrison himself estimated a cut in the vicinity of 80,000 would result in an annual hit to the budget of at least $1 billion, given it would mean fewer people involved in the economy.
"The number of people who come under the skills program would actually fall proportionally, and they're the people who are actually paying taxes, having jobs, contributing to the economy," he said in February.
In September, the Government reported a surprisingly small budget deficit, driven mainly by an unpredicted increase in tax receipts worth about $14 billion.
It makes costs like these easier to afford.

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halsey02 · Nov 21, 2018

Indians..." many cum, many cum, many cum'..namaste!

whoami · Nov 21, 2018

winnipegjets said:
We have Changistan. Now, prepare for Punggolstan. Soon, sinkapore will have to change its name to sinkastan to please our Hindu leader Modi.

But John Tan seems to love it. More Ah Neh and Thambi the better for him. Any policies coming out fm his Masters In White, he would be jumping with joy!

Hypocrite-The · Nov 21, 2018

grandtour · Nov 21, 2018

Five GIIS Schools in One Tiny Red Dot

grandtour · Nov 21, 2018

Please Remember

Its NOT : GLOBAL Indian School
Its NOT : Indian INTERNATIONAL School

Its : GLOBAL Indian INTERNATIONAL School

zhihau · Nov 21, 2018

winnipegjets said:
We have Changistan. Now, prepare for Punggolstan. Soon, sinkapore will have to change its name to sinkastan to please our Hindu leader Modi.

What took you so long? I thought the term Sinkiestan had been used for a long time now... :coffee:

Leongsam · Nov 21, 2018

Australia should reinstate its "white Australia" policy. OZ land was a far nicer place without the Chinks, Lebs and Ah Nehs.

Hypocrite-The · Nov 21, 2018

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SYDNEY: Australia needs to slash its permanent migration intake to battle congestion and high property prices in the country's main cities, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.

"Australians in our biggest cities are concerned about population - they are saying: enough, enough, enough," Morrison said in a speech late Monday (Nov 19) as his conservative government rolls out policy promises ahead of national elections.

"The roads are clogged, the buses and trains are full. The schools are taking no more enrolments. I hear what you are saying. I hear you loud and clear," he said.

The centre-right leader, who heads a minority government, is facing a general election by May 2019 at the latest, and is trailing in opinion polls behind the opposition Labor Party.

Immigrants accounted for 54 per cent, or six million, of Australia's population increase in the 20 years to 2016 for an annual growth rate of more than 1.6 per cent - one of the highest among OECD countries.

Some seventy-five per cent of new arrivals have moved to Sydney, Melbourne and southeast Queensland where Brisbane and the Gold Coast are located.

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Nearly half of Australia's 25-million-strong population was either born overseas or has at least one parent born abroad.

While the country has an overall intake of migrants that has been officially capped at 190,000 annually over the past few years, a crackdown by Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has seen that number fall to around 160,000 over the past year.

The call for further cuts comes ahead of national elections that have to be called by mid-May, with critics of the government saying it was pandering to the views of its conservative coalition's right-wingers and other far-right politicians.

Anti-immigrant firebrand Pauline Hanson - who comes from Queensland state where the government fears losing voters to her One Nation Party - earlier this year called for migration levels to be more than halved.

Morrison did not give details about the size of the cuts he would impose, how they would be carried out or their impact on reducing congestion.

He said he would consult Australia's state and territory governments before any changes.

Experts said a yearly 30,000 reduction would do little to ease urban pressures.

"If you cut 30,000 migrants to Australia - say 15,000 to Sydney and 15,000 to Melbourne - that would make absolutely no difference to congestion in Sydney and Melbourne," University of Melbourne's Peter McDonald told national broadcaster ABC.

McDonald said both cities were investing in infrastructure expansion, but that such projects were still at the development stage.

Meanwhile, the migration cuts would hurt the labour supply, he added.

Population Minister Alan Tudge said last month the government was also considering requiring migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas that are "crying out for more people".
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maxxi · Nov 21, 2018

How can they stand it here i wonder

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