Australia Swamped by Migrants: Why No Street Protests? By James Reed
Australia’s annual immigration intake has already reached a record 500,000 people, fuelled by the international students. The Labor government has said that this is a one of thing, which is clearly false as they are set in pursuing a policy of replacement immigration to meet the demands of the globalists and local Big Australia elites. There is no reason to see Labor turning off the tap now that they have got this going, and I predict that Australia will be taking in first a million migrants in the next annual intake, then the sky’s the limit. At some point the new overlords will just demand open borders, which will suit local Big Business just fine. Until they too are replaced.
Meanwhile ordinary Aussies are feeling the pinch, not only in rents and housing, but for necessities such as food, with one in ten having shoplifted in the last year, which equates to 2.4 million people.
We need mass street protests against the Albo government.
“Australia’s annual migrant intake likely hit a record 500,000 people in September as international students and working holidaymakers returned en masse, challenging official forecasts that migration will fall sharply over the coming year.
Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary at the Immigration Department, estimates net overseas migration hit 470,000 in the 12 months to June and probably reached 500,000 in the 12 months to September. Net overseas migration is the difference between the number of people arriving and staying in Australia for longer than 12 months and the number of long-term and permanent departures.
Mr Rizvi’s forecasts, based on overseas arrivals and departures data, exceed Treasury’s projection for net overseas migration of 400,000 in the year to June, and make it unlikely Treasury’s forecast for the intake to fall to 315,000 by June 2024 will be realised.
“I would be very surprised if the government can get down to 315,000. The September quarter is already very strong. It’s starting to turn, but turn very slowly,” Mr Rizvi told The Australian Financial Review.
The immigration surge has become an uncomfortable topic for the Albanese government, as the Coalition seeks to capitalise on community concerns about the size of the intake and accuses Labor of pursuing a “big Australia by stealth”.
The government has framed the record numbers as a one-off event as foreigners return to Australia after the end of pandemic-era border closures, though it has repeatedly been surprised by the resilience of the demand-driven temporary intake.
The Home Affairs Department this month revealed more migrants were waiting for permanent visas than there were spots available in the 190,000-person permanent program after a 64 per cent increase in applications over the past financial year.
Business has largely welcomed the arrival of foreign workers and students, which it argues is vital for filling acute labour shortages. Economists say the size of the intake has added to pressures in the rental market and has helped push house prices higher.”
“Some Australians are turning to low-level crime to survive, as households buckle under the soaring cost of living.
More than one-in-10 Australians, or about 2.4 million people, confessed to having stolen from businesses in the past year as they reached financial breaking point, a survey of more than 1000 respondents from comparison website Finder has revealed.
Over the past year, the average monthly Australian grocery bill has risen by 7% to $740, according to Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker.
The most common theft is happening at supermarket checkouts, with 5% of people walking out without paying for groceries.
Fourty per cent of respondents admit to deliberately scanning an item as another cheaper product at self-service checkouts.
Many Australian households are financially strapped with a rising number in survival mode, the head of consumer research at Finder Graham Cooke said.
"Aussies are clearly struggling to afford basic necessities and some are turning to criminal behaviour to get by," Cooke said.
The survey was released on the same day as Foodbank Australia's latest report which found 36% of all households are struggling with food insecurity - an increase of 383,000 from the previous year.
The Foodbank Hunger Report 2023 found 3.7 million households went hungry in the past year.
Finder's Consumer Sentiment Tracker found 4% of Australians had driven away from the bowser without paying for fuel in the past year, while 2% had left a cafe or restaurant without paying.
Gen Z are more likely than their older counterparts to take basics such as food or fuel without paying, with about one-in-four respondents admitting to stealing.
More than 10% of Gen Z had left the supermarket without paying for an item, compared to 3% for Gen X - which has prompted shops to ramp up monitoring at the checkout.
Cooke advised those struggling to afford food to visit food banks rather than risk getting a criminal record.
"With supermarket profits up dramatically, it would be understandable for consumers to expect their retailers to do more to help them get through the cost of living crisis," he said.”
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