Mass immigration and multiculturalism are the main threats to Australian citizens - apart from the less-than-thirty-percent Albanese far-Left government that is now lying about doing something.

Mass immigration is beloved of Big Business, Big Property and Big Education/proxy immigration. These groups get all the money it brings in, while the costs are socialised to the community.

None of the ‘Bigs’ have to worry themselves with housing shortages and dilapidated infrastructure; nor the matter of everyone - except them - getting poorer per capita, and a general decline in living standards.

The biggest con is the lie that the foreign students scam is our ‘greatest export that we don't dig up’ (Education Minister, Jason Clare). But, any old bulls-t, repeated enough times, will eventually be believed by some people.

And, as far as ‘skilled’ immigration goes, CBA senior economist, Belinda Allen, believes Australia’s unemployment rate will rise sharply to 4.5% by mid-2024 (from 3.9% currently). Employer labour demand is slowing at the same time as Australia’s labour supply is growing at its fastest pace since the 1970s, along with a drop in productivity.

All Australians are getting out of the mania for massive immigration as a lazy way to boost the economy is a loss of their culture (nobody of a similar culture wants to come here anymore), lower living standards, higher costs of living, shortage of somewhere to live, and increases in actual homelessness; not to mention inadequate infrastructure and expensive and scarce energy.

Lee Kwan Yew's comment about Australians being the “white trash” of Asia is starting to look true.

Economist Leith van Onselen on the nonsense of education as an export; international education was never a genuine export, according to him.

In reality, the majority of student visa holders come from low-income countries and begin working in Australia right away to fund their living and tuition expenses. A significant number of ‘students’ have also enrolled in cheap private colleges in Australia with the intent of permanently settling and working here.

The faulty measurement of education exports promotes the appearance that the industry is a significant earner for Australia, when in fact, the vast majority of this “export” income is produced within Australia in low-skilled and low-paid professions such as driving Uber.

Instead, they are the prime conduit for Australia’s immigration ponzi scheme, which raises housing costs, overburdens infrastructure, and lowers wages, decreasing living standards for the country’s younger and working populations.



Thex Albanese Government has opened the floodgates wider via its two migration agreements signed this year with India that, among other things, provides:

• Five-year student visas for Indians, with no caps on the numbers that can study in Australia.

• Indian graduates of Australian tertiary institutions on a student visa can apply to work without visa sponsorship for up to eight years.

• Australia will recognise Indian vocational and university graduates to be “holding the comparable AQF qualification” for the purposes of admission to higher education and general employment.

These migration pacts will make Australia an even more attractive destination and will likely increase the flow of Indians seeking work and residency in Australia. (https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/12/australia-excels-at-exporting-international-student-lies/)

All this talk about reduced migration next year is all about winning the next election, nothing more!
Alan B.

This 2 party system isn't working.
We need to scrap these Coalition and Labor incompetents and find 2 new main parties to replace them.

I can't in good conscience support the LNP, who are slipping over themselves to please Israel while it murders thousands and thousands of people needlessly.
- And I certainly don't support all this out-of-control woke crap.

These parties and this system just isn't working out for me.
They need to be 'cancelled' just like they wish to cancel everything else.

'None of the above'.

Merkel made that same idiotic move & irresponsible Albanese is hell-bent on creating the same mess here. His ministry must be short of sense too not to stop him.

What a blurting, stammering, disjointed article.

It is a topic worth of discussion but as a scene setting this really is a partisan diatribe. OLO should be able to do better.