Cut Immigration NOW

[Rorschach]

Let's not insult trailers now. They're nice, and people living there are nice.

Well then - nice trailer trash can migrate here.

Why don't you migrate there Bobby...

[FLEKTARN]

Migration is mostly initiated by the country shoppas.

[Bobby]

Migration is mostly initiated by the country shoppas.

How come your avatar is now a picture of a girl?

[FLEKTARN]

Migration is mostly initiated by the country shoppas.

How come your avatar is now a picture of a girl?

Not of a girl. Of a hot girl. Maybe I'm a girl. Who knows.

[Black Orchid]

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged premiers and chief ministers to work with him to address congestion in NSW and Victoria, while boosting population in smaller states and territories.

Mr Morrison will address the hot-button issue when he meets with premiers and chief ministers for his first Council of Australian Governments meeting in Adelaide on Wednesday.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is adamant cutting migration isn't the answer to addressing bulging growth in cities.

"We could never support reducing the total intake, that's not something Victoria would ever back," Mr Andrews told ABC radio ahead of the meeting in Adelaide.

Mr Morrison said there needed to be caution in Australia's biggest states, while acknowledging states like South Australia were pushing for growth.

"In states like New South Wales and Victoria you need to manage that growth because the population impacts in Melbourne and in Sydney are affecting the quality of life for our citizens and residents," he told reporters ahead of the meeting.

Mr Morrison's plan includes looking at what drives population and associated challenges including migration, infrastructure requirements and service provision.

He wants states to provide data and plans to create a national framework taking in perspectives of all parts of the country.

"Since our current permanent intake is almost 30,000 a year below our cap, I anticipate this will lead to a reduction in our current migration settings as we move into next year," Mr Morrison wrote in an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph.

While Mr Andrews is against cutting the overall intake, he said a number had not been the focus of a pre-COAG dinner on Tuesday night.

Infrastructure funding and information sharing about population were the focus, he said.

Population Minister Alan Tudge said the Commonwealth would ask state and territory governments for population plans by the end of January, before the federal government releases its policy in March.

"What we want to do is see a better match between what the population growth is and what the carrying capacity is of those cities," Mr Tudge told ABC radio.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been lobbying for migration numbers to be cut as a solution to congestion.

"We're looking forward to this meeting and in particular putting our case forward to having a proper population policy across the nation," she told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall and NT chief minister Michael Gunner want population growth to stimulate the economy.

https://www.news.com.au/national/breaki ... bcb9a10811

What's wrong with you Victorians? At least Gladys has changed her views on immigration and finally come to her senses. If she runs on that in March she will WIN!! No-one in their right mind would say that Sydney needs more immigrants and I would have thought the same would be said for Melbourne.

Andrews is an ignorant fool but hell you voted him in.

[cods]

thats cool... SEND THEM ALL TO VICTORIA>>.

FIXED..

[Valkie]

thats cool... SEND THEM ALL TO VICTORIA>>.

FIXED..

That's not a bad idea.
And Victoria is small enough to build a wall around.

Shoot any who try to escape.

Solved.

[Neferti]

I saw the Northern Territory "Chief Minister" saying he wants MORE people ....

Great idea .... closer to Manus/Nauru (so would save on travelling costs) and they would fit in well with the Abos.

[LEFTWINGER supreme]

Earlier, the Prime Minister’s hand-picked immigration expert Professor Peter McDonald had told state premiers at COAG that cutting migration will hurt the economy, a disclosure that officials claim prompted laughter after Mr Morrison’s calls for a cut to immigration.

A spokesman for Mr Morrison said the laughter was a “complete fabrication”.

Labor leader Bill Shorten told Sky News on Wednesday night that “we’re going to be guided by the evidence”.
“Mr Morrison’s immigration expert said if you cut immigration it will have a deleterious effect on the economy. Apparently the premiers just started laughing,” Mr Shorten told Sky News.

[FLEKTARN]

Why do you hate on Victoria? What's up with this place?