The latest ABS figures reveal that immigration for the year ending 30 June 2017 was 245,000. This is regarded as disastrous by people like Dick Smith, Leith van Onselen, chief economist with Macrobusiness, Dr. Jane O'Sullivan Qld University school of Agriculture and Food Sciences. And, 8 out of 10 ordinary Australian punters feel that the two major political parties should have a population plan.

With Australia now the fastest growing country in the OECD, the Coalition, Labor – even the Greens – ignore majority opinion
Van Onselen said that governments are running mass immigration to “keep growth artificially high” and as a “defacto” support for the housing industry.

O'Sullivan said Australia was “running to stand still”, and that it is costing the public “$100, 000 per person” for each immigrant. She refutes the 'small population' idea that abounds in Australia, saying that, “our cities are huge by developed country standards” and that our cities have gone will past economies of scale to “diseconomies” of scale. (Source: 'Herald Sun').

Prior to these revelations, we have know that successive governments have have been able to disguise two recessions with excessive immigration and covering up the lack of GDP growth per capita. The Liberal-National Coalition and Labor have “caved in to pro-immigration groups, property developers, big retailers and foolhardy Treasury officials who use planeloads of new arrivals to artificially inflate Australia’s GDP numbers, wtith scant regard for the lowering of individual wealth.

A big slowdown in immigration would allow housing starts and infrastructure to catch up with population. It would give harder-to-assimilate recent migrants more time to integrate with the wider Australian community before many more came in

Ha !;
“defacto” support for the housing industry.

Builders reported on radio yesterday that they cannot get timber and
jobs are being put on hold because deliveries are delayed.

The enormous costs, without gain, of mass immigration are just one result. Don't forget the the dangers that irresponsible Australian governments have wreaked on us.

We used to be able to do our Christmas shopping in Melbourne's CBD without the risk of being mowed down by an Afghan import fixated on how 'Muslims are treated'.

We used to be free of marauding African gangs.

We used to be free of 'Diversity Bollards', as they are called by Mark Steyn. 'Strength in diversity', the loonies used to cry. Now we have to erect bollards in our streets to protect ourselves from that diversity.

From Quadrant,

"There has been a steady stream of puff pieces in the mainly left-leaning media claiming that mass immigration is both necessary and beneficial. However, the arguments proffered tend to be exasperatingly specious and quickly fall apart under scrutiny. Despite the various claims by some business groups and others, Australia does not have a general skills shortage requiring heavy and sustained inflows. Moreover, current immigration policy is, in fact, largely detached from Australia’s labour market requirements. As a recent report by the Australian Population Research Institute found, any relationship that existed between skills recruited under the points-tested visa subclasses and particular shortages in the labour market has eroded under successive governments. This is resulting in large numbers of ‘skilled’ permanent migrants of dubious professional quality and relevance in fields such as IT and accounting, despite these sectors having a significant surplus of workers. In any case, the annual immigration report by the Australian Productivity Commission made it clear that about half of the skilled migrant steam includes the family members of skilled migrants, with only around 30 percent of Australia’s total permanent migrant intake actually ‘skilled’.

Nor can immigration realistically provide a solution to the ‘problem’ of an ageing population, as is frequently claimed by immigration enthusiasts. Again, the Productivity Commission has stated in numerous reports that immigration is not a feasible countermeasure to an ageing population since migrants themselves also age. As migrants grow old, even larger inflows will be required to support them, and so on ad infinitum. In other words, using immigration in an attempt to counter population ageing is the epitome of an unsustainable Ponzi scheme."

http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2017/07/great-immigration-non-debate/

Even the ABC is getting cynical about immigration. To our inept Treasurer's claim of creating 371,000 jobs over the the last year, the ABC says: well, with the population growing so fast through mass immigration, you have to create a lot of jobs to keep up.

That means, we bring all these people here, THEN we create jobs to keep them busy? How bloody ridiculous!

Even old Lefty has got the message: “However, it (mass immigration) doesn't necessarily make life any better for the people who live in the country and arguably, makes it a lot worse.”

When we get this sort of comment from the ABC, we know just how out of touch our politicians really are.

I believe one very important point to consider is our lack of water and power. Apart from all the reasons given so far, these two resources are fundamental to our daily lives. We are already short on both. So before we talk about more people coming to Australia we need to talk about more services and infrastructure.