Here is a link to a petition at Change.org, raising all the legitimate concerns that the Albo Labor government’s mass immigration program is unleashing. We little people know it well, as medical resources, and even space get pushed to the limits, all for Big Australia’s corporates to inflate land prices and have a supply of cheap labour. There is another dimension not mentioned, the ethno-racial Great Replacement dimension, but this is a great start, and deserves support.
The petition is at this link:
Why this petition matters
Started by Paul Sanderson
This text below is from an article of mine published by the Daily Telegraph in March, 2023. They titled it: "This era of inordinate, unmanaged migration needs to stop".
This era of inordinate, unmanaged migration is also behind our crises in healthcare, education and infrastructure.
A 2016 housing census found homelessness had risen by 14 per cent nationally since 2011 and by 37 per cent in NSW. Forty-six percent of all homeless were born overseas.
At the same time, an unprecedented number of young adults are continuing to live with their parents or return home largely because they’re unable to afford rents, let alone buy — over 50 per cent.
A contributing factor is that overseas buyers own up to 400,000 Australian dwellings.
In 2019 the Treasury began attempting corrective, if limited, action by introducing an annual levy on foreign owners of residential real estate who leave their properties vacant.
Canada, facing a similar crisis, introduced a new law in January banning foreign buying or investing in residential properties for two years.
Australia has by far the world’s highest ratio of international university students per capita, five times that of America.
Our population at the end of 2019 was 25,522,169.
Almost 40 per cent of the annual growth was due to natural increase and 60 per cent to migration.
By 2017–18, “overseas students were the largest contributor to Australia’s very high level of Net Overseas Migration.”
Almost “half of those receiving a permanent entry visa in 2016–17 were already residing in Australia”.
That’s in turn damaging Australians’ attitude toward all migrants and refugees.
An ANU Centre for Social Research poll in 2019 found “more than two-thirds of adults do not think that Australia needs more people, a dramatic increase since a similar question was asked in 2010”.
The increase was around 15 per cent. A surge in the (profitable) recruitment of overseas students during that time stands in direct correlation with the change.
For example, in just four years, from 2012 to 2016, Sydney University doubled its intake.
A 2019 Attorney-General’s Department Report found almost a quarter of international students were paid around half the minimum wage and that exploitation of overseas students was “endemic”.
By 2021, when the national census was conducted, managed migration had given way to an increase of over two million people since the 2016 Census, 8.6 per cent. Some 51.5 per cent of residents were born overseas or had a new-immigrant parent.
The Australian Financial Review wrote that Australia has become “a majority migrant nation”.
Single Australians on unemployment benefits can’t afford to live alone. Pensioners who rent can’t enjoy retirement in their own cities, needing to move to cheaper regional areas.
Australia’s disproportionate international student population and unskilled workers allowed in on temporary visas factors in significantly.
Rental prices in Sydney, for example, dropped by 4.8 per cent after Australia’s lockdown. Nationally there was a 4.2 per cent drop from March, 2020 the steepest since 2004.
The federal government’s Housing Australia Future Fund is aimed at building 30,000 social and affordable homes in the next five years.
Five years into New Zealand’s affordable-housing program, 1300 homes have been built. Meanwhile, “Australia is on track for net migration of more than 300,000 people this year, more than 25 per cent higher than Treasury forecasts”.
Where are they supposed to live? Who may be displaced?
On February 3, the AFR reported: “In the past 12 months, rents surged at a record-breaking pace of 14.6 per cent for houses and by 17.6 per cent for units as vacancies plummeted to a record low.”
In my inner-city area of Sydney, I know of rents that have increased by as much as a third in the past six months. That’s not a coincidence.
In 1994, after former prime minister Bob Hawke left Parliament, he said there was “an implicit pact between the major parties to implement broad policies on immigration that they know are not generally endorsed by the electorate” and “they have done this by keeping the subject off the political agenda”.
In 2019, when a plebiscite was in fact proposed in the Senate, to gauge the public’s views on the number of migrants being allowed to live and work in Australia, it was voted down 54-2. This era of inordinate immigration has been far from proportional with regard to skills needed in healthcare, education, farming and more, not only creating shortages but causing people to move into other, less-stressful fields.
It’s brought increasing strain not only on infrastructure and high schools, with one teacher, for example, citing class sizes as her reason for leaving, but Medicare, hospitals, doctors, nurses, and care workers.
A Sydney emergency-department nurse says: “The number of people coming in is uncontrollable.””