We need to resume bringing in millions of cashed up Chinese to restart the economy and keep it afloat just like we were doing pre-WuFlu pandemic.

Australia has a Chinese future and all those not born Chinese can either like it or lump it.

Since I'm of the conspiratorial view, politicians endlessly conspire against the masses,
The view of ttbn to me is too conservative.

The public account of pecuniary interests of politicians, invariably display property holdings as a key investment area, we can be very sure, they will feather their own nests way before any consideration of public good.

Im of the view, ( and I'd be happy to see that view disproved), politicians happily watch the general population dispossessed of any stake in the country they live in, as a deliberately engineered policy, to increase the base of the renter class.

Rent slaves are the actual key to success of property investors. From their view, it is most unsuitable to flatten the rising curve of renters.

The second part if the investor strategy, is to have property values ever escalating, ( capital gains). Win win for one class, lose lose for the other class.

At this point, immigration is dovetailed into a more than useful assurance both branches of the money tree grow strongly.

After all, who will elect a politician that advocates a policy of reducing home values?

And who can argue with the constant and obviously true opinion of Mr Opinion.
I'll go further on his predictions, and nominate Hong Kong as the main mine for immigrants with money to burn.
This will be achieved by a sudden interest by politicians, in Human Rights abuses as the invented catalyst for acting on their personal needs.

Dan

Dan,

perhaps your view is warranted, but i really think that Austrlaia's political leaders, having long followed the principles of freer tade since the 1980s, have no clue to offer any alternative policy stance that would complicate previous policy rationale.

But certainly, some political grubs have benefited from high housing prices, fuelled also partly by high levels of immigration and the china gravy train.

Runner, I agree with you again. As well as that we have the natives in their ever increasing numbers telling us whites how racist we are for not accepting their culture.
David

Automation, autonomy and AI will negate the need tor population growth. And co-operative capitalism, real tax reform and a decarbonised, nuclear-powered economy is all we need to save all essential industries, along with massively increased demand for leisure industries as well as create thousands more wealth creation opportunities, the discretionary spend and niche export markets.

Timidity and blah, blah, blah, plus blah, blah, blah, is not any part of the solution, nor is the, business as usual, advantaging the big end of town/foreign investors and vested interest ahead of joe average and the battlers.

Or, as expected, socialising all the debt created in the recovery as well as make our young folk carry this can for several future generations as all the wealth is continually funnelled as per usual, into fewer and fewer hands?

And overseen by the chief money changer in the Temple, Mr smirk himself? I hope I'm wrong and stand to be corrected or proven right on the money, with the passage of, not very much time. Tick, tick, tick!
Alan B.

While millions live a life of quiet struggle if not JobKeeper allowance a cabal of special interests ensures it stays that way. After all they live comfortably in a leafy suburb so why can't everybody? I suggest we need a checklist of criteria before there is more immigration. That includes increasing (not decreasing) per capita GDP, less than 0.5m on what used to be called Newstart, less than 0.5m officially underemployed, average housing cost less than 25% of median income, elective surgery waiting lists under 3 months and an end to water wars.

Those criteria could be built into a population policy. That would factor in transfers from temporary visas to permanent residence, currently a backdoor way of keeping the numbers up. Trouble is we might find Australia's population should be 15m not 25m.