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Double standards on immigration?

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We have recently seen mass protests in Australia against immigration and recently an MP, Andrew Hastie resign and go the Liberal Party backbench federally over the issue.

http://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/right-to-protest-march-for-australia-rallies-against-mass-migration-draw-support-and-controversy/news-story/a461f8d4b3d1527ae74de6cb6f39e4c7

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-03/andrew-hastie-quits-shadow-cabinet/105850958

What I find strange though is the fact people at these rallies only ended up in Australia due to family members immigrating to Australia.

Andrew Hastie, although opposing further immigration, also benefits from his family immigrating to Australia also.

I would say the bigger issue here, is that we actually have a racism problem. These people objecting have a dislike for those from other countries, despite the fact their family members came from overseas.

It's all a bit strange really and very selective.

What I also find strange about this whole scenario is Aboriginal people had land taken away from them by people from overseas. I don't see any objection from protestors or Andrew Hastie about that.

Yes we should have a discussion about immigration in Australia in terms of sustainable population numbers and the environment, but bringing other issues into the debate like race have nothing to do with the issue. After all most people in Australia came from elsewhere or had family members who did.

Could you imagine if we were barred from entering or told to leave? We have always been a generous, open place that welcomes people and should continue to do so.
Posted by NathanJ, Sunday, 5 October 2025 12:32:16 PM
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The Albanese government has no standards on immigration.

‘Jobs and Skills Australia’ has revealed that 50% of international university graduates in Australia are doing jobs below their skills level, and have nothing to do with their qualifications. They would not pay to come here to study if it were not for the chance of work and residency. Australian universities are not that good, internationally anyway; it's all about back-door immigration (although the universities’ immigration work is not much of a secret anymore) work, and eventually getting the family in. And, employers can hire on the cheap. Even those incomers working in the fields they are qualified for are being paid 49% of domestic employees in business roles, and $40,000 less in engineering and computing.

Is there not a chance that people knowing that they are being ripped off might be a little careless in their work? Not just in say, communications, but everything?

“Migration, not education, drives enrolments”. 70% of all students say so. 77% of Indian students say so. 79% of Nepal students say so. Once you get into Australia, you will never be kicked out.

Many of these here-for-ever students have “churned through” 5 or 6 different visas (at our cost) to cling on.

And, because of their numbers, the English proficiency, and the actual practice of speaking it has gone to pot
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 5 October 2025 2:18:11 PM
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Writer and political commentator Nick Cater's latest newsletter calls time on what he describes as “Multicultural Mirage: a 50 year experiment in state-enforced harmony that has failed”.

State imposed cohesion has failed.

Cater traces the dangerous policy back to Trudeau Canada's 1969 “clumsy” attempt to ease tensions created by biculturalism - English/French. Other groups felt left out. And in 1971 it was decided by Pierre Trudeau that there wasn't “an official culture”, and no ethnic group had precedence over any other.

In the debate that followed, only one voice dissented and pointed out that Canadians would become a collection of competing groups at war with one another.

And, so it came to pass: wherever multiculturalism has been forced on citizens by elites, with no discussion.

Apparently the Beatles ‘Image’ was about this “borderless, faithless” Utopia in which “humanity would live as one”.

Gough Whitlam fell in love with the idea in 1973. Even though they highlight differences, cultural distinctions, diversity, it was thought that (indeed it was insisted) that Australians recognise themselves as part of a “single national project”. What that was was never defined.

However, with mass immigration and regular hate-fests on our streets and increasing division between people, there is clearly no such ‘project’.

Identity politics thrive. Multiculturalism is a top-down policy. Cater writes that it is reaching the end of its “USELESS” life.

I hope so.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 5 October 2025 2:19:26 PM
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That silly word ‘racist’ used by the numbnuts has nothing to do with growing calls to moderate immigration into overloaded Australia. Balance and common sense is being called for. As for me, if anyone wants to call me a racist because I don't believe different races were meant to live together: fill your boots. I don't care.

Anglo-Celtic Europeans are tipped to be in the minority in Australia within decades. Most of the creeps cheering this on, or are actually involved in mass immigration of anyone who wants to come here will be dead by then, but they will be remembered as the lunatics who turned the First World into the Third World. I hope there is an afterlife so that I can watch.

All the while that the loonies jabber about white ‘invasion’ they are committing racial and cultural suicide. There has never been another people in history as mad as they are.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 5 October 2025 2:46:12 PM
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