Dear ttbn,

I have no objection to people of a different culture coming to Australia. I have no objection to people of a different or no religion coming to Australia. The identity changed when the English settled the country. I have no objection to continuing change. Identity is not a constant.

A few generations back none of my ancestors spoke English. It is now my language. Having people of a non-English culture coming to Australia need not divide the country. We can learn to live together.

We can learn about the cultures in third world countries and be better for it. I applaud the disappearance of white Australia.

The environment is my concern not identity. There is a shortage of fresh water in Australia compared to that available in the USA and China.

We have different concerns.

Humans have the intelligence, the tools and the
natural resources to provide for a good sustainable
life as long as there are not so many humans that we
exceed the globe's carrying capacity. All the evidence
suggests that we must turn around population growth and
aim for a much smaller population than we have today.

David F., is right water shortages in this country is
only one of the problems we face in the 21st century.
Poverty is another, and the list goes on.

the masses of immigrants who are neither white, colonisers, or European?
ttbn,
Everyone who settles here is a Colonist including the new, non-genuine Indigenous !

David Llewellyn-Smith, Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super, and founding publisher and editor of 'MacroBusiness', writes that what he calls the 'AlboGreens' - the "fake left" - are so focussed on "social trivia" that they are that they are happy to conduct a class war on vulnerable Australians "via reckless population growth".

. more than 1,600 people are pushed into homelessness each month
. New South Wales’s priority social housing waitlist has doubled in less than a decade and surged by 1,000 to 7,573 over the past year
. This year the population has increased by 2.5%. The number of dwellings in the country has increased by 1.5%

AlboGreens squabble over "non-solutions to their own crisis", pretending to build 6,000 houses annually, when 250,000 are needed to prevent the situation getting worse.

Our immigration system needs an overhaul
according to Sydney University. We're told that
temporary visa numbers have been uncapped
since the Howard government. And they have been
growing faster then permanent visa numbers. Temporary
migrant workers apparently have doubled in the past
15 years.

This is concerning. Australia may become a "guest-worker"
society like Germany post World War II. It can cause harm
to Australia and to migrants and under mine community
confidence in the migration system.

It can lead to migrant worker exploitation.

We need to match the right intake to Australia's needs.
We have an ageing population and reduced productivity.
We also need the development of skills. Capping will be
crucial to this and immigration can play a role.

In any case the Albanese Government does have a plan:

http://theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/27/albanese-government-to-radically-streamline-australia-with-three-tiered-system-for-skilled-workers#

My apologies. I mistyped the link.

Here it is again:

http://theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/27/albanese-government-to-radically-streamline-australia-migration-with-three-tiered-system-for-skilled-workers#