Australian immigration

[Bobby]

Finally immigration gets a mention but only
AFTER the election at Dunkley.



Dan Tehan
ABC Insiders
Dan Tehan - Shadow Immigration Minister (3/3/2024)
"1.6 million coming here over 4 years is too many."

https://iview.abc.net.au/video/NC2405C005S00

Transcript of a small part:

28:40
Question-
What should Australia's migration intake be?


well - I can tell you what it shouldn't be -
it shouldn't be as high as what it is today.

what should it be?

Well obviously we've gotta wait and see and we will announce that
in the lead up to the next election.
we've gotta wait and see what it is under this Government
and then we can work out OK what we need to do -
but I can tell you what's too high -
1.6 million people coming into this country over 4 years -
to give your viewers an idea of that -
that is the population of the city of Adelaide.
when we have a housing crisis -
when we have a rental crisis -
when people can't get in to see a doctor -
when we're seeing cuts in our infrastructure -
so the roads aren't being built  to deal with that population -
that is too high -
I went to the press club not long after the last election
and said that what we need is a proper plan when it comes to immigration
and set out what that should look like.

[Bobby]

Mar 15, 2024
Former New South Wales premier Bob Carr has criticised Australia’s record migration levels, saying we “don’t have to do it” to “guarantee Australia’s prosperity”.

Immigration to Australia has reached record numbers with more migrants arriving in January than ever before – 125,000 permanent and long-term arrivals.

“I’ve been trying to get Australia to understand that we do not need to have the highest rate of immigration, in proportion to our population, in the world,” Mr Carr told Sky News host Erin Molan.

“We’ve got third-world rates of immigration, and we don’t need it.

“Australians, especially those in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane … I just wonder why this is the only economic model we’ve got – to force feed population growth, to run the highest imaginable immigration intake, and to condemn our big cities to a relentless chase to keep up in terms of infrastructure.

“We don’t have to do it to guarantee Australia’s prosperity.”

[Bobby]

Mar 4, 2024

Cheaper rents, cheaper houses and a lower cost of living are all possible, but not with the current immigration levels.

There were 518,000 net overseas immigrants last financial year. 2.76 million visa holders are in the country and more are coming with immigration rates accelerating in the second half of last year.

Our country simply cannot handle this amount of immigration in the middle of a housing crisis.

[Jasin]

Yeah. It's pretty stupid them saying we have a Housing shortage and then pump in over 1 million people over the last 2 years!

[Bobby]

Yeah. It's pretty stupid them saying we have a Housing shortage and then pump in over 1 million people over the last 2 years!

There is something going on.
I can only speculate that the Banks are fearful about their
over exposure to the property market - which is a Ponzi scheme -
so they need more participants to prop it up.
They have put pressure on the Govt so there
won't be a banking collapse -
that means mass immigration to put pressure on housing
and drive up prices.

[Jasin]

Just my opinion, no real research but I think its two wrongs not making a right: Housing shortage and excessive immigration - both of which are making matters worse and neither party wanting to take the responsibility to say that this is the case - two things wrong, more than just one thing.

[Black Orchid]

Jim Chalmers is partial to the weak dollar strategy and is overseeing the crumbling Aussie dollar. He thinks having a weak dollar makes our exports more competitive but the downside is that it makes our imports more expensive. He needs to keep his fingers out of the RBA too.

Meanwhile they are letting in hundreds of thousands of immigrants we don't need and can't afford whilst overseeing a housing market that most Aussies can't afford anymore.

Both sides have been talking about capping foreign housing ownership for decades which is contributing to the ridiculous rise in property prices and neither side has done a thing about it.

[Bobby]

Jim Chalmers is partial to the weak dollar strategy and is overseeing the crumbling Aussie dollar. He thinks having a weak dollar makes our exports more competitive but the downside is that it makes our imports more expensive. He needs to keep his fingers out of the RBA too.

Meanwhile they are letting in hundreds of thousands of immigrants we don't need and can't afford whilst overseeing a housing market that most Aussies can't afford anymore.

Both sides have been talking about capping foreign housing ownership for decades which is contributing to the ridiculous rise in property prices and neither side has done a thing about it.

There's more -
Aussie's are being outbid by Chinese with dirty money
that has been laundered though Australian casinos -
$billions of it.

[Black Orchid]

Jim Chalmers is partial to the weak dollar strategy and is overseeing the crumbling Aussie dollar. He thinks having a weak dollar makes our exports more competitive but the downside is that it makes our imports more expensive. He needs to keep his fingers out of the RBA too.

Meanwhile they are letting in hundreds of thousands of immigrants we don't need and can't afford whilst overseeing a housing market that most Aussies can't afford anymore.

Both sides have been talking about capping foreign housing ownership for decades which is contributing to the ridiculous rise in property prices and neither side has done a thing about it.

There's more -
Aussie's are being outbid by Chinese with dirty money
that has been laundered though Australian casinos -
$billions of it.

Chinese are the main reason we have a housing crisis. Go to any auction in Sydney and that's all you see.

[Bobby]

Chinese are the main reason we have a housing crisis. Go to any auction in Sydney and that's all you see.

Same in Melbourne -
whatever you bid, the Chinese will bid another $5K.