Anyone with their eyes open and ahand not in Big Businesses' pocket can see where this is all going for Melbourne, soon to be renamed "Hellbourne." Once lauded as the "world's most liveable city," Melbourne is now hurtling toward a dystopian future, as an unliveable city. What was once the cultural jewel of the South risks becoming "Hellbourne" by century's end, a crumbling, overpopulated, and economically strangled mega-slum, with mass immigration fuelled Great White Replacement being a key causal factor. Please explain? I will.
Since the year 2000, Melbourne has absorbed over 2 million new residents, and another 3.5 million are projected by 2056, pushing the population toward 9 million. This means a staggering 5.5 million people will have been added within just 56 years. Such growth is not being matched by infrastructure or planning, leaving ordinary Melburnians to suffer the consequences: suffocating congestion, disappearing green spaces, and skyrocketing housing prices.
The promise of prosperity through growth, really just money for Big Australia Development (BAD!), is proving hollow. Infrastructure projects have become black holes for public money:
Metro Tunnel: $2.5 billion over budget.
West Gate Tunnel: $4 billion in cost blowouts.
North East Link: Consuming $16 billion.
Suburban Rail Loop: Initially projected at $50 billion, now expected to exceed $200 billion.
The Victorian Auditor-General's Office recently reported that 110 major infrastructure projects have collectively blown out by $11 billion in just one year. Credit rating agencies, including S&P and Moody's, are warning of a downgrade, which will trigger higher interest repayments and force tax hikes and service cuts. The equation is simple: the state is spending itself into collapse, and we will go down with this ship of fools if we are not careful.
To house this influx by mainly non-white mass immigration, the Vic state government plans to force councils to accommodate 2.24 million new dwellings, mostly high-rise apartments … read, urban slums and ghettos, in established suburbs. Premier Jacinta Allan has warned that councils refusing to comply will have their planning rights revoked:
"It's simple: work with us to unlock space for more homes or we'll do it for you."
This raises urgent, unanswered questions, that Macrobusiness.com.au has asked (with my additions to the list):
Where will the new Asian students go, when schools already lack classrooms and staff?
How will overstretched hospitals manage more patients from Asia?
Can sewerage systems handle the extra waste from migrants?
Will public transport, already over capacity, collapse under the strain, of more and more migrants?
How will families survive in shrinking homes on shrinking lots, as elite migrants buy up and move in?
Melbourne is being transformed into a Blade Runner urban cesspool sprawl, where quality of life is sacrificed for statistical growth.
At the recent M2050 Summit, city leaders presented a surreal vision: benches designed for chatting with strangers, leafy bridges between skyscrapers, and an economy that is "outward-looking, competitive, highly skilled." The public, meanwhile, grapples with rent they can't afford, schools they can't get their kids into, and roads that no longer move.
Premier Allan envisions a future where nurses live near work and migrants feel included, as if the establishment does not over-include them now. Opposition leader Brad Battin talks about endless development and affordable living. But these promises are contradicted by reality: the very policies they promote are eroding liveability and fraying the social contract.
Melbourne's decline is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of an economic model addicted to immigration-fuelled GDP, no matter the cost to per capita wellbeing, community stability, or infrastructure integrity.
The result? An increasingly fragmented society, where overdevelopment breeds resentment, infrastructure buckles, and public trust collapses.
Melbourne's current trajectory is not sustainable. Without drastic change, a halt to immigration-driven growth, rebalanced regional development, and governance grounded in prudence, the city faces a grim future.
By 2100, Hellbourne may not be a metaphor. It could be a reality: a broken, overcrowded monument to hubris and political cowardice.
A city sacrificed on the altar of globalism. The globalist elites will burn out states, countries and even the planet (hence the interest in settling Mars), and move on, as their psychopathology knows no bounds.
Yet one more warning to the West.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/melbournes-transformation-into-hellbourne/
"Melbourne's population has expanded by around 2 million people this century.
Melbourne's population is projected to grow by another 3.5 million during the next 31 years, reaching 9.0 million by 2056.
This implies that Melbourne will add 5.5 million people in just 56 years.
All Melburnians have felt the negative consequences of this population explosion.
Infrastructure has become overburdened, congestion has increased, and housing quality has deteriorated as Melburnians have been squeezed into shoebox apartments or postage-stamp-sized lots on the urban fringe.
The state government is also facing a financial catastrophe from the population boom.
The state government has embarked on a swathe of costly infrastructure projects to keep up with the rapid population expansion. Almost every project has seen massive cost overruns, including $2.5 billion for the Metro Tunnel, $4 billion for the West Gate Tunnel, and $16 billion for the North East Link.
The Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is the worst. It was initially estimated to cost $50 billion, but the Parliamentary Budget Office predicts that building and managing all three stages will cost more than $200 billion.
The Victorian Auditor-General's Office recently reported that 110 major projects have cost $11 billion more than the previous year.
Nearly half of the 110 large projects assessed by the Auditor-General's Office had an increase in total anticipated investment.
Meanwhile, the two major rating agencies, S&P and Moody's, have warned that Victoria will be downgraded if the state government fails to control its debt.
Further rating downgrades would raise interest rates and debt, necessitating additional tax rises and service cuts.
Put simply, Victoria cannot afford to increase its population by 3.5 million over the next 31 years. It would bankrupt the state.
The financial aspect is only one of the problems Victorians face. Eroded livability is the other.
Premier Jacinta Allan warned councils that the state will take away their planning rights if they do not commit to building 2.24 million additional homes (mainly apartments) in their suburbs by 2051 to accommodate future migrants.
The councils have been given until October 2026—one month out from the state election—to provide their plans.
Premier Jacinta Allan warned: "It's simple, work with us to unlock space for more homes or we'll do it for you.
"We're in a housing crisis and the status quo is not an option".
"It's time to shake things up".
The obvious questions that remain unanswered include:
- How will established suburbs handle the added population?
- How will schools without adequate classrooms and teachers manage more students?
- How will hospitals, which are already overloaded, manage extra patients?
- How will the sewerage systems handle extra waste?
- How will trains already packed before they reach the inner suburbs accommodate more passengers?
- How will the already packed roads deal with more cars?
The reality is that Melbourne has not provided adequate infrastructure for the 2 million people who have arrived over the last 25 years. Melbourne surely won't provide adequate infrastructure if it adds an additional 3.5 million people as projected over the next 31 years.
As usual, the above facts were ignored by the M2050 Summit held at Town Hall on Friday.
The M2050 Summit brought together Melbourne heavyweights, residents, and business owners to flesh out a 25-year strategy to help "shape the future of our city".
As reported by the Herald-Sun, "Underground roads, benches solely designed for meeting and talking to strangers and green leafy bridges connecting skyscrapers were just some of the ideas to come out of the M2050 Summit".
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan spruiked a more affordable and connected city in 25 years.
"(2050 Melbourne) is one where a nurse can afford to live close to work", she said.
"Where a student from overseas can feel part of our society, where people starting a business can connect with the world around them".
Liberal opposition leader Brad Battin also spruiked an ever-growing and affordable Melbourne in 2050.
"I want Melbourne in 2050 to be a city where people can afford to live", he said.
"Where there are opportunities to develop, whether that is brownfield, greenfield or infield, all the way through this city".
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the City of Melbourne touted:
"We must ensure that this expansion improves our quality of life by adding to our city's liveability, vibrancy, energy, culture, environmental sustainability, and scientific capabilities".
"We will build an economy that is outward looking, competitive, highly skilled and that generates opportunity and growth for all".
What planet are these dills living on? There are no plans to develop the necessary infrastructure and services to cope with the projected 3.5 million population influx.
Policymakers merely want to cram more people in and turn Melbourne into the megacity, Hellbourne."