Data reveals 77 per cent of refugees are still unemployed a year after their arrival and only 21 per cent of all humanitarian refugees taken in have
any functional level of English. Population Minister Alan Tudge told the Australian the government will trial a reformed program by July 1. Image: Getty
A basic command of the language should be mandatory for anyone wanting to emigrate to Australia. What's the point of people teaching English in nations such as Japan when they could be better employed here?
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Govt unveils $40m military suicide prevention plan | Sky News AustraliaThe Morrison government has announced a $40 million plan to form a new permanent body as a shield against the rise of military suicides. \n\nThe plan will appoint a national commissioner for defence and veterans suicide prevention who will have the same power as a royal commissioner. \n\n The government will also establish a new veteran family advocate to help shape policy, with a focus on mental health. \n\nImage: Getty Or you know, stop sending our troops into illegal wars because daddy America had a tight grip around your balls. It’s a start. 👏 Gee not bad seeing they have been cutting funding!
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Govt defends sport rort saga by hitting back at 'hypocritical' Labor | Sky News AustraliaLabor has used Senate Question Time to further prosecute the government over the controversial sports grants programme and the auditor-general’s finding that the Coalition splashed cash in marginal seats. \n\nWhen asked about the controversy, both Senate leader Mathias Cormann and Sports Minister Richard Colbeck used the ‘reverse pork-barrelling’ defence that Bridget McKenzie lifted funding in Labor electorates. \n\nMinister Cormann claimed Labor should be “grateful” for the intervention and be proud of the programme. \n\nBoth Mr Cormann and Minister Colbeck hit back at Labor, and claimed their line of questioning was hypocritical, considering a 2010 auditor-general report which found an aspect of Labor’s fiscal stimulus program favoured Labor-held seats. \n Even when caught these LIARS can’t admit it. RORT after RORT and a slap on the wrist after an investigation by Liberal Staffers clears them FFS ScottyFromMarketting CrimeMinister This Liberal Government is horrible. KICK THIS MOB OUT 🤦🏻♂️
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Vic govt refuses to release fire maps | Sky News AustraliaThe Victorian Government is adamant it won't publicly release fire maps showing the build-up of fuel loads across the state in the lead up to this devastating bushfire season.\n\nThe State Opposition claims withholding the maps is putting lives at risk but the Government insists it's just keeping the data from ending up in the wrong hands.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n Why I wonder? 🤔 yeah better not show that. That’s because they stuffed up...GUILTY
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Govt considers opening coronavirus quarantine centres on mainland Aus | Sky News AustraliaThe federal government is reportedly considering opening coronavirus quarantine centres on mainland Australia. \n\nThe option is being considered for thousands of Australians who have been in coronavirus affected areas. \n\nOne site being seriously considered is a disused workers camp on the outskirts of Darwin.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia quick! someone get the Greens up there to film it A further 35 evacuees have been dumped on Christmas Island as the federal government continues to avoid dealing with the coronavirus crisis. A tweet from Scott Morrison said 36. Lost one on the way? ScottMorrisonMP
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Qld govt 'dam plans' demonstrates 'sheer arrogance' | Sky News AustraliaQueensland minister and Member for Burnett Stephen Bennett says any plans by the Palaszczuk government of “decommissioning” the state’s Paradise dam is just “beyond belief”. \n\nQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had defended plans to rush through regulations in relation to the dam, saying the move was being considered as a matter of “public safety”. \n\nQueensland’s Paradise dam needs significant repairs due to damage sustained in devastating 2013 flooding, however the premier is considering alternate options to rush plans to address the issue.\n\nWhile Ms Credlin had said locals are “fearing” the Labor government will use this opportunity to take a “preemptive strike to permanently cut the dam's capacity by as much as 40 per cent”.\n\n“The line that they’re giving us is about a safety concern but quite frankly that still hasn’t been proven,” Mr Burnett told Sky News host Peta Credlin. \n\n“I can only guess that it’s about an ideologically driven Greens preference deal,” he said. \n\n“And I would hate to think that was a reality”. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia
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Wet and wild weather to lash Australia's east coast | Sky News AustraliaA major rain event is expected to move from southeast Queensland into northeast New South Wales in coming days. \n\nMeteorologists predict the rainfall to extinguish the bushfires burning along the eastern seaboard, bringing an end to the horrific and tragic bushfire season in eastern Australia.\n\nThe wild weather conditions are predicted to deliver an estimated 300 millimetres of rainfall.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia Already here Going to get WORSE within the next fortnight! Cyclone forming in coral sea WILL fill the dams. Last time a cyclone made it so far down South East coast, Brisbane flooded... hope they fixed there dam problems? Climate change to blame yet again. Watch the pile on.
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