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Originally Posted by mkpdavies
If/when this comes off, people may decide Australia is not that far away and decide to emigrate there.
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The biggest modern barrier to emigration (immigration) is not the distance but the Border controls. However, many on this forum, myself included, no matter what our personal views on immigration/Borders, believe that a sovereign country has a right to its own immigration policy, however strict. And such policies can and do carry real human consequences.
That could be a key reason why Australia, NZ, Canada and even the US to some extent are still relatively emptyish: very hard to immigrate legally. Personally, I will eventually likely settle in Australia permanently via the spouse visa.
Technological innovation, whatever, of course it has to be a "low carbon" stratosphere jet to satisfy the PC pro-AGW brigade. :roll: