The claim that India is planning to build one million homes in Australia, primarily for Indian migrants, as reported by The Economic Times and referenced by Leith van Onselen, raises significant questions about Australia's housing crisis, immigration policies, and political motivations.
Australia faces a chronic housing shortage, driven by a mismatch between population growth and housing supply. Since the mid-2000s, high levels of immigration have outpaced dwelling construction, leading to an estimated shortfall of 200,000 to 300,000 homes, according to AMP chief economist Shane Oliver. The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (NHSAC) projects this shortage could worsen by 79,000 homes over the next five years unless supply increases significantly. However, their sensitivity analysis suggests that a modest 15% reduction in population growth could result in a surplus of 40,000 homes, highlighting the critical role of immigration in driving demand.
India is Australia's largest source of net overseas migration, fuelled by agreements like the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), the Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement, and the Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications. These pacts, signed under both Coalition and Labor governments, have facilitated Indian students, professionals, and skilled workers moving to Australia, contributing to population growth and housing demand. It is in short, a colonisation program as Australia has been sold out by its political class.
According to The Economic Times (August 31, 2025), India's Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal announced that India is in "deep negotiations" with Australia to build one million homes, a project valued at USD 500 billion, potentially funded by the UAE. Indian workers would be trained in Australia to meet local building standards. Details such as the location, Canberra's financial commitment, and India's exact role remain unclear,
The Macrobusiness.com.au narrative suggests these homes are primarily for Indian migrants, implying a self-reinforcing cycle where Indian workers build homes for more Indian migrants. This portrays the policy as a cynical move by the Albanese government to bolster Labor's voter base, given that Indian migrants reportedly favour Labor (58:34 in 2022, per the Carnegie Endowment, and up to 85% in recent elections, per pollster Kos Samaris). Which it clearly is.
The proposal would gerrymander elections, to ensure Labor remains ruling. It is beyond outrageous. There are logistic problems in getting these workers up to Australian standards, but maybe that will no longer matter for a migration-mad Labor government, who can't make up its mind who will rule us, communist China, or India.
Hence, all the more reason for the anti-immigration movement to grow and keep going to the streets. Labor must be voted out for national survival. On this issue get onto One Nation, and other nationalist parties and independents to jump up and down on this proposal.
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"India to build 1 million homes in Australia for Indians
Australia is suffering from a chronic housing shortage because, for two decades, population demand via excessive immigration has run ahead of housing supply.
The following chart from AMP chief economist Shane Oliver illustrates that after immigration more than doubled and annual population growth surged by 150,000, Australian housing became structurally undersupplied:
Oliver estimated that Australia's cumulative housing shortage is between 200,000 and 300,000 dwellings.
"Australian housing is chronically undersupplied", Oliver wrote in July.
"This has been the case since the mid-2000s when immigration levels, and hence population growth, surged and the supply of new homes did not keep up. Our assessment is that the accumulated housing shortfall (the green line in the next chart) is around 200,000 dwellings at least and possibly 300,000 depending on what is assumed in terms of the number of people per household".
The federal National Housing Supply and Affordability Council (NHSAC) projects that Australia's housing shortage will worsen by 79,000 over the next five years as population demand continues to exceed supply.
However, NSAC's sensitivity analysis projected a surplus of around 40,000 homes after five years if population growth is just 15% less than forecast.
India is easily Australia's largest source of migrants, as illustrated by the ABS chart below:
In recent years, the federal government has signed three pacts with India that make it easier for Indians to work and live in Australia, namely:
The Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ECTA), signed by the former Coalition government late in its final term.
The Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement, signed by the Albanese government in its first term.
The Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications, signed by the Albanese government in its first term.
Labor wants more Indian migration because the Indian diaspora overwhelmingly votes for Labor.
A 2022 survey conducted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace found that in the 2022 federal election, Indian migrants voted 58:34 for Labor over the Coalition.
Pollster Kos Samaris openly stated that 85% of the Indian diaspora voted for Labor at the recent federal election.
With the Indian migration spigot well and truly open and Australia's housing shortage worsening by the day, the Albanese government is reportedly working on a deal to bring Indians to Australia to build one million homes. From the Economic Times of India:
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that India is in "deep negotiations" to create 1 million homes in Australia and has reached out to the UAE for financing the project.
The Commerce and Industry Minister said that this is a project worth $500 billion.
"I am in deep negotiation with my counterpart in Australia to create 1 million homes. 1 million homes. Anybody wants to do the maths? A million homes in Australia would be at least USD 500 billion opportunity," Goyal said while speaking in Mumbai.
However, Goyal did not reveal the detail of the project like the location in Australia, the exact spending by Canberra on it, or India's role in the project.
Goyal further said India is proposing to allow Indian workers to get trained in Australia on necessary skill sets required to build homes as per local standards and create the housing…
This reads like satire but has been reported in the legitimate Indian news site, The Economic Times.
If true, this is a highly cynical and disturbing policy from the Albanese government.
Instead of simply slowing the flow of immigration to balance population demand with the supply of housing, infrastructure, and services, the Albanese government is seeking more Indian migration to build homes for Indian migrants while bolstering Labor's vote."