What Makes This Interesting, Is Who Wrote It
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Kids raised entirely in Australia with no family connection to NZ (or Tonga, or PNG or a host of economies from which Australia sourced labour in times past) are just tossed out. Done.
It's inhumane. They've sent ethnic Bulgarians and Turks back to the homeland when people have no Bulgarian or Turkish language skills.
It used to be punishment ended when the sentence ended but now, retribution has no time limit.
It's entirely discretionary btw. They don't have to do it. They just chose to do it. (The current government)
Raise this in domestic forums and racism and nationalist "fuck you, I'm all that matters" emerges very quickly.
If you're entitled to citizenship of Australia don't wait. Your life here may depend on it.
If you have something interesting to add, write a comment. For example, your comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ChrisMarshallNY
Sometimes you can cheat and add the author to the title, like If You Paid Your Debt to Society, You Should Be Allowed to Work [by Jamie Dimon]". But there is a high chance that the mods will remove the remark.
Too late for me to edit it, but it didn't stick its nose over the bar, so not an issue.
Chairman of JPMorgan Chase.
Appears regularly on TV, and in front of Congress.
What makes it even more interesting, is that the finance industry is notoriously unforgiving of criminal records. I know a guy that graduated top of his class from Brown, and had a hard time, throughout his career, because of a misdemeanor pot bust in college.