The Conspiracy we Live In

Now with this Article it finally got clear to me what was wrong with Australia ever since the Financial Crisis of 2008. as well as why it started reminding me of Russia a lot more than when I just arrived.

The article however leaves a benefit of doubt as to whether Dutton have mismanaged the borders due to incompetence or done this intentionally. Article does hint heavily to the latter.

However, it misses the final answer. As to 'why do it?' in the first place. I will answer it here.

The answer is money of course.

How that Works

The migrants exploited by criminal gangs, can be paid a lot less than Aussie workers or migrants with legal status. Since their official legal status does not allows them to work, then they have work without any form of formal legal agreement. 

Minimum wage only applies to people with formal legal employment. Because of that businesses will not employ Aussies or people with legal immigration status, as that will mean they will have to pay them a proper wage and do all the legal paperwork as well.

Since provisions of Labor Law do not apply to the illegal migrant workers, their employers can pay them significantly less, if anything at all. They can also treat them a lot worse, knowing full well that illegal migrants cannot apply to Aussie courts for justice. 

How it Originated in Russia

I heard that this practice was already widely widespread in Russia in 2000s and possibly in 90s as well. Such workers in Russia typically come from Central Asian countries and called with a German borrowed word 'gastarbeiter'. 

However back in 2000s Russia was the only country run by the mafia and the rest of the world was different. It is very sad to see that these practices spread out from there to the rest of the world, to Australia.

Why it spread to Australia.

Perhaps Financial Crisis of the 2008 was the catalyst of spreading it out of Russia. Driven by the desire to save money, some businesses have adopted it. Thus, becoming more competitive than those who did not. Other either had to follow suit or get bankrupt.

I guess it is only fitting that people like Dutton and other Tories are behind the spread of this scheme in Australia. In a way you can even say that they lived to their 'Tory' moniker, that means something like bandit in Gaelic Irish.

Who benefits from it?

Aside from criminal gangs who run it, no one in particular benefits from this state of affairs. Perhaps such gangs disguise themselves as some form of employment services.

Some dodgy business owners possibly take advantage of this scheme consciously, but many are possibly unwilling enablers of this practice.

Illegal cheap labor the crime gangs bring it, take away jobs from Assies and legal migrants such as me.

Poorly paid exploited workers have no reason and possibly no training to do a proper job. That can endanger customers as well.

Cheaper labor not always result in cheaper prices as shown by current cost of living crisis.

Implications

Thanks to the illegal migrant workers, both local Aussies as well as legal migrants cannot get any work in Australia. No business will hire a person whom he has to pay a minimum wage plus other entitlements such as Super, if he can hire an illegal migrant for much less money.

Because of that unemployment is high and people on the dole do not have any hope of finding work at all.

Unless things change it will remain so in the foreseeable future.

However, I personally would prefer replacing illegal workers with automation and then going the UBI way.

Hope for the Future

Now that Labor is in power, they should use this scandal to advance their political fortunes. If people will understand the whole gravity of the conspiracy, the Tories have created, they will finally turn away.

from them and started voting Labor again. We will have a long Labor government era.

Then the country will finally be able to emerge from the Great Recession and start rebuilding itself.

So hopefully we will finally see this: