Do you recall Albanese mentioning his plan to increase permanent migration to record high levels during the last federal election? I certainly don't.

But it looks like Albo is opening the immigration doors wider than ever before.

From the SMH:

"The government wants to increase the migration intake to between 180,000 and 200,000 a year, which would bring in more skilled migrants including tradies, IT specialists and aged care workers…

This would bring the skilled intake – usually about 70 per cent of the total cap – to between 126,000 and 140,000."

http://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-to-bring-in-tens-of-thousands-more-migrants-as-it-eyes-bargain-with-union-movement-20220812-p5b9hf.html

Economist Leith van Onselen at MacroBusiness observes:

"Labor’s plan to raise the permanent migrant intake to 200,000, as demanded by business groups, would usher the biggest immigration intake this nation has ever seen.

How will a return to extreme immigration help Australia achieve its emissions reduction targets, help with the housing crisis or bring flat-lining wage growth back to parity with inflation? It will have the opposite effects. Yet, our corrupt politicians want us to magically believe that migrants don’t compete for housing, jobs or consume energy and resources.

Clearly, the Labor Party has folded like a cheap deck of cards in response to relentless pressure from Big Business, Big Property and the Edu-migration industry.

What makes Labor’s ‘Big Australia’ immigration policy especially galling is that absolutely none of it was canvassed during the election campaign. Why? Because Labor knew damn well that it wouldn’t have been a vote winner, because the overwhelming majority of Australians oppose a return to pre-COVID mass immigration.

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Ultimately, Labor’s ‘Big Australia’ immigration policy is all about providing cheap labour and demand for Big Business and Big Property, and students for the Edu-migration lobby.

It will further suppress wage growth and exacerbate infrastructure and housing strains across Australia.

It is another treasonous betrayal of Australian workers, only this time by a wolf in sheep’s clothing fake “Labor” Party that is just as neoliberal as its predecessors."

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2022/08/labor-launches-biggest-ever-immigration-program/

Since when have Macrobusiness and/or the SMH been credible sources?

Australia's working age population 'demographic sweet spot' was passed pre-Covid according to the OECD https://data.oecd.org/chart/6MTS

This means fewer workers but more retirees and pensioners... tugging on budgets.

Permanent migration has a marginal impact but many people are not aware that our population has been inflated since 2006, i.e. spiked, by an expansion of the NOM net overseas migration formula, to include temporary churn over e.g students, NZ'ers, backpackers etc.

The latter are described as net financial contributors to budgets and the economy in general.

85% of net migration now comes from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Only 29% of Australians agree that ‘we need more people to increase our cultural diversity’ while 53% think that ‘cultural diversity is a threat to Australia’s own culture and identity’.

When the inevitable woke hysterics start shouting that all this polling shows ‘Australia is racist!’ and that white Australians are racial supremacists who really don’t like brown people, it is useful to note that majority opposition to mass immigration is common across all birthplace groups. The annual quarter-million NOM Big Australia target doesn’t find much favour at all, even amongst those born in Asia (whose heaving metropoles may have culturally conditioned them to believing that bigger is better). Of these, only 30 per cent want to see their home-country levels of overpopulation reproduced in Australia.

This opposition to immigration from earlier cohorts of immigrants is a blow to the Left as that makes non-white Australians as guilty of 'racism as white Australians. As the Left insists only white people are capable of racism, this would cause a major problem for them if they stopped virtue signalling long enough to think about it.

We don’t need 'skilled' migration, and we don't get it. The jobs filled by migrants are the ones Australians don’t want to do; consequently, most migrants are not skilled.

As for the "ageing" population: migrants age too, and the ponzi scheme continues. More eventual votes for whichever 'Big Australia' party is in, Labor or Liberal. Immigration and the political class's ignoring of the population's opinions on the subject is just another example of our virtual one-party system of government and voters lack of control over it. Communist China, here we come.

The deputy PM and leader of the Nationals is going into a huddle with the Socialist government in a 'job summit' that will have this massive immigration blight discussed. More of the one-party look for the coming People's Republic of Australia.

At least Dutton refused to attend; but he doesn't seem to have much control over the Lefty Opposition, looking more like the Great Disappointment, Perrottet every day - even 'thinking about' the racist Voice system of apartheid instead of opposing it as the racist, anti-Liberal crock of shite that it is.

Not informed, can you explain the shrinking working age cohort in Oz and most of the world?

Then, how to support more pensioners and related services through PAYE and budgets with temp churn over (not permanent migration which is marginal)?

I get that many don't like 'post '70s or white Oz policy' immigrants, wink wink, but it's about the supposed environmental ('hygiene') impact of population i.e. eugenics.

The world and humanity moves on, you don't need to stay and hold everyone up.

Our mad PM has sent messages to Pakistan and India 'celebrating' their independence from the Empire, blurting that it is a day to "cherish". Apparently the silly man doesn't know about the appalling bloodshed (nothing to do with the British) between Muslims and Hindus caused by partition. That's the sort of ignorant goat we are going to have running the PRA for the next 3 years.