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Speaker 1: So here's a question for you. How did we manage

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Speaker 1: to bring in so many people to this country and

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Speaker 1: yet fail to have enough doctors when we get there.

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Speaker 1: This is the question we've all asked every surge of

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Speaker 1: immigration we've ever had. There's been many surges of immigration.

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Speaker 1: I'm one. I came out in nineteen sixty five with

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Speaker 1: my English father and my Kiwi mum. There's been many

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Speaker 1: more waves. We've had millions of people arrive in this country.

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Speaker 1: Have we had thousands of doctors arrive and start practicing

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Speaker 1: as well? No, we have not. Every time we've opened

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Speaker 1: the door, there seems to have been an attitude that

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Speaker 1: will take the immigrant's labor, We'll take their money, we'll

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Speaker 1: take all the advantages, but ignore the consequences of a

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Speaker 1: bigger population. So Simeon Brown's announcement of a faster a

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Speaker 1: tract to qualifying overseas doctors who come here is welcome

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Speaker 1: and about time, because our immigration booms have distorted our society.

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Speaker 1: It swamped our motorways, it puts strain on housing and infrastructure,

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Speaker 1: and it crushed our service sector, including doctors. Yet all

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Speaker 1: the money and all the labor made people think we

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Speaker 1: had a rock star economy, but that was artificial. If

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Speaker 1: the economy is a rock star, how come you can't

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Speaker 1: see a doctor. If you can't see a doctor, is

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Speaker 1: it really rocking? So congratulations to Simeon, and congratulations to

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Speaker 1: the government for putting some money in because we need them,

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Speaker 1: and finally we seem to be realizing that if we

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Speaker 1: bring in more people, we need to look at the

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Speaker 1: whole picture. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

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