I gave up on the immigration limitation issue long ago, since it seems to me that within the framework of the present debt-based financial system, the evil capitalists will always be plugging for more people to sell more junk, to make property more expensive by competition, to dispossess the remnant of Anglo-Australia and in general to turn Australia into more of a cesspool than it already is. They will not stop unless Nature stops them, so it was good to see, despite the ill-effects otherwise … yes, I know, New World Order … the Covid-19 shutdowns at least having the one silver lining of slowing down the insane mass movement of people. But, in the end, Australia will be pushed to ecological collapse, simply burnt out as the entire planet will be, unless some Darwinian event intervenes in the meantime … like a real pandemic 1918+ style, or a hyper-Carrington solar event, turning the lights out, or the Second Coming would be even more decisive, bringing the whole tragicomedy to a merciful end. What has all the blood, sweat, tears and sacrifice been for?
http://www.crispinhull.com.au/2020/08/28/more-pro-population-growth-propaganda/
“There was more fear-mongering, self-serving, and flawed guestimates over population this week – this time from the quintessential accountant and consultant to big business and government, KPMG. Shock, horror, Australia’s population would be 1.1 million less by 2029-30 because of the reduction in immigration caused by Covid. That would be a “$117 billion” hit to the economy over the decade by dragging down economic growth, KPMG calculates. That would leave every Australian $2850 worse off each year, KPMG says. So, KPMG and its big-business clients hope that the masses will be lulled into supporting a return to higher immigration. Well, let’s hope a bit of counter-propaganda will prevent that. Even on KPMG’s figures, this hit to the Australian economy and therefore living standards of Australians is suspect. KPMG’s says GDP would be $117 billion lower each year by 2029-30 if we do not have these 1.1 million extra people, and that would leave every one of the 28 million Australians by then $2850 worse off each year – that is a total of $79.8 billion, let’s say $80 billion. Bear with me with the figures. But if instead we have the extra immigrants, that $80 billion will not be “lost” because of the extra $117 billion in GDP the immigrants would provide. Take that $80 billion for the existing population away from KPMG’s $117 billion, it leaves $37 billion a year for the 1.1 million immigrants themselves, which comes to just $33,636 each immigrant per year, well below the Australian average income. So they are dragging their heels. They are a cost to the Australian community not an asset. There is clearly something wrong with these “plucked-from-the-air” figures.