The Tele reports:
More than 60 per cent of refugees to Australia have failed to get a job after five years, according to a damning Federal Government report into the humanitarian settlement program.
The greatest unemployment rate was recorded among new arrivals from Iraq and Afghanistan, with less than one in 10 finding full-time work and 93.7 per cent of households receiving Centrelink payments.
The statistics are contained in a Department of Immigration and Citizenship report released last Friday under the cover of the royal wedding.
Wouldn't want to spoil Wills and Kate's big day...
The problem is not that these people are unemployed. Rather, it is that they are unemployable.
More than 60 per cent of those people without jobs had a poor command of English.
Can you blame them? Why bother learning a new language, when you can get handouts each week with no effort. Wait till the folks back home hear about this scam! It is unhelpful that our welfare agencies are frequently multilingual.
From day one, in a new country, you should be learning the language and the culture. Any immigrant who isn't interested, should be shown the door. I believe immigration is critical to the future of this country. However we should be attracting the right kind of immigrant, and actively repelling the wrong kind. There's something very wrong with the system when people who are completely unlikely to get a job or contribute to the country in any way (other than pleasing Australia's craziest refugee tragic
Marilyn Shepherd), have an easier time gaining admission than motivated, educated professionals.
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