As an American who temporarily migrated to Australia I feel I have to say that
this dialogue is inappropriate and irrelevant for this chatline which is
supposed to be about learning and appreciating Australian birds.
1. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, so most citizens DID vote for her. The
electoral college voted for Trump. Many people are very upset about the results.
2. Most of Australia is comprised of immigrants (or people whose ancestors were
immigrants), as is America. So to sit there and say that having American
immigrants come in to the country would make it less Australian is pretty
hypocritical.
3. You don't know who might be reading these emails, what their background is,
or where they come from, so any offensive or insulting language should be
avoided.
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From: Birding-Aus <> on behalf of Philip
Veerman <>
Sent: 10 November 2016 15:39
To: 'birding-aus'
Subject: American birders seeking to migrate to Australia
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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