Nice to see the forums usual suspects supporting the party of Rapists & Racists.
"If they are arriving at 500 to 1000 each day they have to be somewhere? Yep that's right, we'll put em' up at Basil and Toady's house.

Bezza

They are probably settled where they were when they first arrived.

Tens of thousands of them are believed to have been here for 15 to 20 years. Very comfortably ensconced in a country lacking the will or courage to get rid of them. They are not new arrivals. The housing crisis and other problems didn't just suddenly appear; it happened slowly, until it is now biting hard.

And you can bet your bottom dollar that the ones who have been able to live here illegally without getting caught are making money by hiding and advising people whose visas have recently expired.

As very few immigrants have permanent accommodation prospects before they arrive here, the migrant underworld would be very rewarding, and we can't discount the possibility of people who should be doing something about it having their palms greased with some of that money.

And, remember, most people who come here now are Third Worlders who are used to crowded living spaces. Lots of them in one room.

I do not think it is as simple as some here are suggesting.
The planes are arriving with up to 100 on each. Do the math !
Either the increased claimed is wrong or they do not exist.
Or they are being smuggled in by the government.
Who can fiddle the Commonwealth Stats figures ?
If they do exist or they are not departing then they
must be sleeping in the streets.

Angus Taylor has claimed that he has finally woken up to the fact that , “Dishing out billions and billions of dollars to people in this country who are not citizens for welfare, that’s not fair on hard-working Australian citizens”.

Well, it's going to continue that way for another two years, then Taylor has to win the election - if he is still the leader by then - and, if he does win, he has to remember what he said and act on it. Highly doubtful that anything will happen, judging by what the Australian political class has become - lying and incompetent.

So, his “promissed” restrictions of certain welfare payments to non-citizens means diddly squat for the next two years, and probably thereafter. His “plan” to reduce immigration is in the same category.

Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Patterson said that “a lot of Australians would be shocked that non - citizens can access welfare”. If they took enough interest in what their political class gets up to or they cared, that is. Australians should really be called Ostrichalians as they keep their heads in the sand most of the time.

Naturally, the unhinged Greens Senator David Shoebridge thinks there should be no difference between permanent residents and Australian citizens when it comes to welfare.

If they are not fit for citizenship, or they don't want to be Australian citizens, they should not be here. Permanent citizenship should be scrapped together, in my opinion.

He blurts the old chestnut that permanent residents are “critical to building our country”. Perhaps. But they don't think enough of the country to sign up as actual Australians (so why do they want to live here permanently) or they are not considered to be suitable citizens, which would be odd, with Burke handing out citizenship willy nilly to people who haven't even been vetted.

Shoebridge says he wouldn't want to live in a country that did what Taylor ‘might’ do. That’s fine. He could find a country more to his liking and piss off. He wouldn't be missed. And it would mean one fewer idiot with his head in the public through.

Shoebridge is, though, OK living in a country with treasonous ISIS brides. He threw that one in because Taylor did not want them allowed back in - just like “an overwhelming majority” of Australians don't want them here.

Only an extremist would want non-citizens getting the same treatment as citizens. Non-citizens are damn lucky to be tolerated, and they are looked after by health services and essential human rights.

Australian citizens who bring out elderly, non-productive parents are already responsible for their upkeep of those people, not Australia. And that's as it should be.

There are even more Australian born than immigrants who shouldn't be here ! Ethnicity is only a minority component, ideology & mentality are the crucial parts.
The idea of multiculturalism is mere academic as in reality every culture has bad apples & many of the home-grown are right-out poisonous !
Everything is about Rights, we never get to hear of responsibilities ! All we hear about is law breakers getting off perpetually ! People who do nothing get awards & recognition as heroes whilst real heroes fall into oblivion !
Buying votes should be treason not a step up in Bureaucracy ! Why isn't integrity & empathy taught in schools ? Is it because teachers & bureaucrats don't know the meaning of the words ?