Salman Rushdie 'defiant' after attack, nuclear danger in Europe, and could boosting migration fix Australia's skills shortage?

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Salman Rushdie's 'feisty and defiant sense of humour remains intact', family says

A violent attack and life-changing injuries might result in a subdued attitude for some people, but not Salman Rushdie. The internationally acclaimed author's family says hisafter being stabbed at a lecture in New York on Friday, which resulted in a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye.

 

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200k/pa, that is building a city the size of Canberra, every other year. Can anyone explain how this will help worker shortages when we have to house, cloth, feed all these extra people? Australia is fast losing it's status as the lucky country.

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