Mass immigration and multiculturalism - crimes committed by both Liberal and Labor - will be the death of Australia.

Ripped-off…don’t vote.

This issue must come to a head within a few years. The present scenario won't last of plenty of water in the rivers and a seemingly tight job market. Many of the new immigrants won't be able to afford good housing while the existing population struggles with rising costs such as energy. Those of us already here may not see any benefit and some things like Medicare appear doomed to get worse.

A recent ABC item on aged carers on temporary visas from the Pacific islands was an eye opener. They admit the plan is to get permanent residence then bring out family. That will be a kind of multiplier for already high levels of immigration. The backlash will get louder when things get tougher in the next few years. So far few politicians are willing to buck the high immigration consensus.

Taswegian

I doubt that there will be any backlash. Australians don't have what it takes any more. That's why we have the rubbish in Canberra that we do.

Hogwash is the only term that comes to mind for our current immigration policy and big Australia. When we closed the borders as we should have, our economy grew, and unemployment shrank markedly.

Bring more people in? Where will we house them? We already have tent cities reminisant of the Great Depression! How many would come if we showed them the power bills they'd be facing or the rents they'd be paying?

We need a pause, not an endless stream of migrants, many of whom have incompatible cultures and values.

The real issue that needs much higher priority than currently given is the ever-increasing cost of energy and what we can do about it. And the price we now pay for the years where the only game in town was the asinine privatization of publicly owned enterprise and amenity. Another issue the voter had little or no say over.

There are real solutions that are not the renewable hogwash the government trots out. And they come with Sovietized energy solutions and nuclear energy.

And nuclear waste burning molten salt reactors that are so safe, they can be walked away from and allowed to do their thing in complete safety without human control for months or years.

Cost a fraction of conventional reactors to build and what's more can be mass produced for little more than the build costs of big diesels.
Alan B.

Well said Stephen. There's no democracy in this particular decision making. The big end of town that profits from high immigration/population growth has the ear of government and no-one else. What will happen to housing and rental prices as demand increases, goodness knows. Meanwhile, there's ever more encroachment on native habitat meaning other species are being driven to extinction.