Quote Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill View Post
The issues in Oz are more related to Chinese and Vietnamese rather than Pakistan.

Australia has long had a system where you need to have a provable skill base and a job to go to. Rather than letting in a Pakistani roadsweeper and his family following.
I meant the shortening of the word "Pakistani".

I've seen American TV shows where they've the same contraction, they don't have the same history i.e. NF in the 1970s.