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To add insult to injury, our esteemed PM of the day, Bob Hawke, brokered a deal between the two major parties, not to debate immigration and related issues but leave it soley to the party in government. The reason given to us (the people) was that immigration was too complex for us to understand.

So we do not get a chance to debate or discuss anything and the press play anything down because the major parties are major advertisers and will not comment. That is the way they want it.

Nothing will happen until that deal is broken as both major parties agree to high immigration.

Henry,

John Macauly is the NSW director of Australian Conservatives. If you Google 'John Macaulay, Spectator, you will be able to read his article.

Immigration is good for big business, and for governments as a display of artificial growth. No good for the rest of us, as GDP per person drops.

As you say, both parties are guilty of mass immigration, and they refuse to accept that it is an election issue; not one they need to worry about, of course, because both parties are at it. We need to vote AC in the senate to have any hope of stopping it.

If Australians can't buy property in China then the Chinese should not be able to buy property here. Same should apply to any National with no reciprocal arrangement.
We can't blame the foreigners for buying up property here if some Australians are stupid enough to allow it !

Individual,

People have been saying that for years,but the political class isn't interested. They care only for themselves, big business and the bribes they get from them.

That's why it is waste of time for the average person to vote while we don't have primaries to select from a number of candidates to get one nomination not selected by a party or a bunch of 'power brokers'. Nothing will ever change the way things are now, particularly with the the only two parties capable of forming government pretty much the same, as they have become. The two party system is really now a one party system with slight variations. That's why we have mass immigration and multiculturalism, and why we can no longer be sure that our borders are safe. If there are votes in it, the Liberals will fold on border protection in a flash; hanging on to power in seats threatened by stooges of the Far Left is more important to them than policies and the values they once espoused.

Anyone doubting the uselessness of the Liberal party and its current leader-in-passing, should read "The Liberal Party loses heart, loses vision as the election year begins", by Tom Waite in The Spectator today.

The lobbying firm of NSW LIBERAL powerbroker Michael Photios has started donating to the LABOR Party. Photios confirmed yesterday that his firm, Premier State, had for the first time joined the Federal Labor Business Forum and had spent $22,000 this year via the forum to attend Labor functions.

Mr Photios also hired ­Sabina Husic — an ex-staffer to Labor premier Kristina Keneally, one-time NSW opposition leader Luke Foley and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, to attend state Labor fundraisers in the lead-up to the March 23 state election.

And this bloke manipulates and influences the preselection of Liberal candidates. The Liberal party is really finished when tolerates this sort of behaviour from one lf its members.