If the "educated, skilled progressive workers from the United States" come to
Australia, that might decrease the average IQ of both countries. Going by
yesterday's result from USA..........
Philip
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Martin Butterfield
Sent: Thursday, 10 November, 2016 2:00 PM
To: Dave Torr
Cc: birding-aus; Denise Goodfellow
Subject: American birders seeking to migrate to Australia
At the risk of getting too political for this list, a comment from Crikey
this morning is interesting.
> The only possible upside for Australia is that a relatively large pool of
> educated, skilled progressive workers from the United States might now be
> looking for a wealthy, Anglophone democracy to move to. For an agile,
> innovative economy like Australia, it’s a no-brainer that we should be
> trying to encourage them to move here, starting now.
Martin Butterfield
http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/
On 10 November 2016 at 11:08, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> Guess there could be a few. But to quote from Denise's signature "With
> every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent
> becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian"! Hopefully they
> won't go feral!
>
> On 10 November 2016 at 11:04, Bill Stent <> wrote:
>
> > Well, if they're going to show up, just don't do it by boat.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Denise Goodfellow <
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > An American birder has asked what steps she should take to migrate to
> > > Australia. Do any Birding Aussers know?
> > >
> > >
> > > Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
> > > PO Box 71
> > > Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
> > > 043 8650 835
> > >
> > > PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
> > >
> > > Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
> > > Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism
> Award,
> > > 2004.
> > > Liaison Officer, NT Field Naturalists’ Club
> > >
> > > With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this
> > > continent becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.
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