It's going to be interesting how Government & incompetent bureaucracy will juggle one stupid with another stupid in this upcoming race of the races.
Looking at the dark ages religious & the absolutely mindless Left Woke makes it impossible to take sides for any sane citizen to choose.
I mean, the tattooed, stud-riddled, nose ringed unemployables vs the primeval unquestioning, both drugged to the eyeballs unemployables do not leave any option other than let them lie in the bed they made themselves. Let the sane do their thing !
'The Planet of the Apes' doesn't suddenly look all that far fetched along with 'Soylent Green' & 'The Island' !

No need for baby bonuses, cash pays, child keeping money, nah, just employ some old fart ex Liberal PM as the new 'LITTLE JOHNNY STUD MUFFIN', the women will be lining up in their thousands!

Nathan,

You say that people should be “able” to afford to look after their own children.

I agree. They used to be able to do that: women could (had to) resign from their jobs after marriage, and they could afford to do that, and look after their own children, unlike now, when taxpayers are paying billions for them to keep working and put their kids in care to be brain-washed earlier, and in some cases - probably many more to be revealed - preyed on by perverts.

Could you explain these two sentences to me, please. My poor old brain doesn't get it.

"Well you can't pick and choose with a baby bonus. Our own does include people who have come here from overseas and cannot speak the language etc".

There is a lot of scoffing about things in the past from people who were not there. But having been there myself, and living through the current chaos, I know what was preferable. People under 50 have been denied the benefits of learning history, so I don't expect them to know that, apart from technology and the things that they can't manage without, Australia used to be a much, much better place. I am grateful that I spent most of my life in those times, and I am sorry that younger generations never enjoyed them, and now never will.

One of the great misconceptions is migrants don't speak English, the fact is 90% of new arrivals either exclusively speak English or are proficient in English as a second language. The stereotype migrant that some Old Farts would have you believe is all, the man and woman wearing turban and hijab, with a tribe of kids in tow, leading a couple of goats speaking gibberish is not true.

My Tamil family friends who arrived in February 2023, have just had their second child. They could speak excellent English the day they arrived. he has a very good skilled job earing around $85k/year. Living in a very nice rented house, saving hard for their own home. The oldest daughter is top of the class in primary school. Unfortunately they still eat curry, and he doesn't like meat pies (I got him to try on), doesn't like beer, likes a glass of red wine instead.

The fact that all pro willy nilly migration are evading at all cost is that the greater majority of modern migrants are simply building up numbers.
We saw them walking over the Harbour Bridge a few days ago & it was clear that their focus was not on building Australia, they were using the comfort & safety of being in Australia to keep on spreading hatred against people who simply ran out of patience after thousand or more years of seeking peace.
There are migrants & then there are migrants. Let Australians have a say in a referendum which they prefer to come here !

Indy

On the Sydney Harbour Bridge March;

WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING, BAD PEOPLE DO SOMETHING!

I understand you arrived in Australia as an economic refugee with nothing, and were able to take advantage of this very generous country. Yes I agree not all migrants are an asset, there are those who only take, and bring "baggage" from back home with them, but fortunately they are in the minority. You seemed to have arrived with a hatred of our progressive liberal democratic society, and those different to you, including our indigenous brothers and sisters.