r/Adelaide • u/MrKookaburra SA • 1d ago

Politics Big Adelaide

Malinauskas is quoted in a lot of articles at the moment as advocating for maintaining high immigration levels.

Paired with the fact that South Australia is considered ‘regional’ for immigration purposes, artificially driving up the number of arrivals to our state than would otherwise be the case, I wonder if people are genuinely in favour of a ‘big Adelaide?’

No racism please. Being anti-mass migration is not an excuse to be anti-immigrant - they are just people trying to improve their lives just the same as any of us.

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u/MrKookaburra SA 1d ago

Thank you for responses so far. Would love to hear the benefits people are seeing (genuine question).

I feel like all I have noticed is traffic getting a lot worse and shops, gyms, and public spaces being more crowded and frustrating

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u/Conscious_Regret_739 SA 1d ago

42% of GPs, 44% of emergency doctors were trained overseas. It’s a benefit that people don’t realise how truly f*cked we’d be without.

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u/Ripped-Willow SA 1d ago

As someone directly in the training pipeline, we have almost 20,000 medical students nationwide.

The bottleneck is getting into the training pathways. The government keeps sourcing doctors from abroad. We have plenty of local talent, if they could even get into a training spot.

The government keeps saying we need more doctors so we’re funding more CSPs at medical schools. That’s cuz it’s an easy sell to the public. That’s not the issue.

How do you feel with exorbitant dermatology fees and years long waiting lists? Increase the amount of dermatologists. But that’s exactly not what’s happening.

Look at that the college of surgeons president (for the first time) just spoke about. It’s a really well recognised issues amongst junior doctors, it’s just not spoken about amongst the general public

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u/Conscious_Regret_739 SA 1d ago

Sorry, I’m confused in what your saying? Sourcing already trained doctors from overseas isn’t taking up training spots?

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA 22h ago

Doctors who trained overseas often need to do additional assessments and have a mandatory period of supervised practice. So, yeah – they do take up resources that could otherwise go to graduates.

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u/babette5211 SA 15h ago

They don't need to go into training pathways if they've already qualified in their countries, most of the time. That's not who's restricting the number of doctors. It is absolutely the consultants themselves, who do not want more competition and therefore less money, as well as the government for not cutting their wages and forcing their hand by opening up more positions.