One of the ramifications of PM Albanese's gift to Big Australia through mass immigration is that the net migration floor will now be 250,000 per year. Net migration for 2022-2024 will be approximately one million, thus moving the Overton window to the globalist extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window#:~:text=The%20Overton%20window%20is%20the,population%20at%20a%20given%20time. No-one mentions nowadays the ethno-racial composition of these migrants, with China and India now the main countries sending their diaspora to this country. Professor Blainey, where are you? Oh, he is busy on the social cohesion issue: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/ominous-protest-marches-raise-the-question-has-social-cohesion-in-australia-ever-been-in-such-peril/news-story/a72deda2419e45ee3f7bada39e4154e9.
As for Albanese, I think Leith van Onselen sums this guy up well:
"Even though he himself sets the immigration and population targets, he wipes his hands of the debacle. It must be the Reserve Bank, the global economic outlook, any old excuse will do.
His complacent Treasury Building narratives are so oft repeated we also know them by heart.
Budget repair, fighting inflation, soft landing, million jobs, record participation, wages growing, cost of living relief, net zero transformation, measuring what matters.
As Gina Rinehart could tell you, most of those "million jobs" have in effect gone to migrants.
Generally, they're government and services jobs, not in tradeable sectors. Taxpayers themselves are subsidising the jobs, also the cost of living "relief".
Any honest accounting of consequences for locals would acknowledge the following.
Artificially high energy prices, sharp declines in real wages and real household incomes, all time rental crisis and housing unaffordability, crumbling living standards, and so on.
As the COVID crisis eased, Morrison then Albanese were frantic to restart immigration.
Voters enjoyed the migration lull. Unlike the sanctimonious governing classes, they didn't want Big Australia back. The political duopoly made damned sure that's what they got.
It was predictable, net migration would reboot to 200,000 and higher, as per the duopoly's "normal" or "average" after 2005. Less predictable was Albanese doubling down.
I repeat, lies are lies. You can't spike net migration that high by accident or omission. It's hard work.
Here's a list of migration "reforms" Albanese authorised. To fight a spurious "visa backlog", he's obliterated previous intake records.
Shamefully, this policy extremism and voter pain enjoys near-universal support from the donors and stakeholders who shape Australia's top-down "democracy".
Even the bleeding hearts of organised religion and housing "advocacy" in effect they turn their backs on the housing plight.
Apart from Rinehart, the few dissident agents in a nation of 27 million are a handful of entrepreneurs, economists, media, academics, and lobby groups."
In short, immigration, while making some elites richer, will result in the longer term in the destruction of Australia. The country will be seen as yet another failed experiment of the West.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/09/on-immigration-albanese-has-already-won/