Well, the international airport lounges definitely wouldn't go quiet. The article says just over 177,000 people immigrate a year. That's a drop in the bucket compared with the international traffic. Sydney international alone has 13.5 million revenue passengers (assuming Wikipedia can be believed). I write this sitting in Christchurch international about to fly to Sydney international!
Actually I thought current immigration was more than that quoted, which is a small number relative to population, and compared to the history of immigration to Australia.
Immigration makes us poorer? I'm prepared to bet that everone posting here is a descendant of immigrants, and that they and all previous members of their family since immigration are and have been better off than their immigrant ancestors were before they came. The vast majority of us descend from economic immigrants.

H there BANJO...

Your second last paragraph says it all in my view ? There's already much civil unrest in many European countries where there's been much Muslim 'back-up'. Mainly because many of those Countries who initially welcomed immigration, were shocked to find how aggressive they were, and one need only look at what's happening in the French Port of Calais, Police have needed to adopt riot protocol, in order to stop these young Muslim men from stampeding through the Channel Tunnel.

Why might you ask do these Muslims seek to reach Great Britain? Many of them passing through other European Countries, a sort of evaluation even a financial appraisal to see which Country has the 'softest touch' in terms of benefits, free accommodation, and all the other advantages for immigrants to access without too much difficulty.

Of course the best financial 'ideal' or 'attraction' would have to be Great Britain with the 'immediacy' of all the financial benefits, the NHS and the Dole, priority free housing, etc. etc. While many of the UK's lower and working classes, who've paid tax all their lives have to struggle on, and on and on and even on. Their anger is palpable. If in any doubt, listen in to London's talk-back Radio LBC 97.3, as I do, and you'll hear their despair. It's morally wrong, and highly inflammatory, to say the least.

Civil War or civil insurrection ? You can bet your life on it, and it's my belief it will be initiated by Muslims living in Great Britain wanting Sharia laws right throughout the United Kingdom !

I did hear a moslem say why many of them cheat on the dole and other
welfare funding. They treat it as the Jizaz tax which all infidels must pay to moslems.
So this would seem to be why they feel no shame and are defiant when
they get dragged into court.
The cry in the UK is now "I want my country back !".

Our problem as I see it is that many people see the reports from
France of killings, they tut tut then watch a few TV programs and
dismiss it all from mind. What is needed is the drip drip drip of
reports of Islamic attacks that are happening daily.
There is one newsletter that produces each month a report of something
happening or a court case for every day of the month.

For instance this just one that has daily reports;
http://tinyurl.com/zwmw8gr
It made me realise that this whole moslem thing is a real campaign
to change our way of life in a really dramatic way.
Certainly not for the best but it should be compulsory reading for
schoolgirls in particular.
These things are what the media is keeping from us. It is not PC !

Right on, Bazz.

Nothing like a bit of mutual back slapping and migrant bashing from the 'Usual Suspects' when it comes to immigration. We get the standard lines, Fortress Australia as put forward by the extreme right of One Nation, no Asians, no Muslims, no one who's not white Anglo Saxon, no one who does not fit our ideal, but we don't actually say that. What else do we have, its all a conspiracy by vested interests to keep us poor. Well vested interests have failed in that endeavor over the past couple of hundred years, as here we are in 2016 with 97% of the population migrants or decedents of migrants and Australia one of the richest countries in the world, with a very high standard of living, despite according to some, immigration being an economic neutral. Then there is what the singular does or says, and we use it as a blanket to incriminate all within the group, if one does it, then all do it!
There is nothing new in any of this, post WWII there was a high degree of animosity from native born Australian, mostly of British ancestry, towards Southern Europeans, people who they perceived as different and therefore a threat to their "way of life". Post Vietnam and an influx of Indochinese migrants engendered more hostility from the same quarter, but this time they were joined by the more recent European immigrants in condemning Asian immigration, for all the same reasons which are being put forward today. Australia, despite the doom and gloom merchants, has on the whole been successful at assimilating and accommodating migrants. No one should deny there has not been problems at times, but mostly they have been overcome to create a successful multi cultural society.

Well Paul1405, your post is very typical of the Useful Idiot's attempts
to put down such as myself.
You always bring up the tensions with previous generations of immigrants,
yet you just do not seem to be able to see the difference between those
previous immigrants and the current moslem crop of immigrants.

That is why you qualify for the Useful Idiot label.

As far as the previous generations are concerned, there was some truth
in the case of the Italians as they did bring the various brands of
the Mafia with them. Or have you forgotten Trimboli and company ?
However most Italians did not give allegiance to them.
Likewise the Vietnamese, we did have an Asian Crime squad to combat
the drug importation business and that still seems to be very active.

However, and you should not need a lecture from me to understand this;
There is a different structure in the community of these recent
migrants demonstrated by their religious/political structure.
They are instructed by Mohammed not to take infidels as friends and
to avoid all contact where possible.
Perhaps you have never had contact with them, I have had limited
contact but it was not very productive and this was before I understood
anything about Islam.
One example, showing me a photo of his children but covering up his wife in the photo.
That was my first impression of Islam way back in 1967.