As we know, Australia’s population soared by nearly 500,000 in 2022 (a record high) on the back of extreme net overseas migration of nearly 400,000 (also a record high):
The early indicators are that 2023 will be an ever bigger year for immigration given monthly visa data shows net arrivals are booming on the back of record international student flows:
This boom in immigration has been explicitly encouraged by the Albanese Government, which used September’s Jobs & Skills Summit as a trojan horse to ramp numbers to record highs via:
- Increasing the permanent (non-humanitarian) migrant intake to a record high 195,000 people a year (up 35,000);
- Increasing the number of hours international students can work and how long they can stay after they finish their studies: and
- Committing 500 new staff and $42 million of funding to clear ‘visa backlogs’.
All of the rhetoric coming out of Labor is that this extreme immigration is a ‘good thing’, and that it wants number to go even higher, despite Australia suffering from a serious rental shortage.
You know the Albanese Government has ‘jumped the shark’ on immigration when one of Australia’s biggest immigration shills, Abul Rizvi, admits that net overseas migration is too high:
As usual, Abul Rizvi ducks and weaves like Mike Tyson when asked what an ‘optimal’ immigration intake is, but it is certainly below current extreme levels.
Here’s a genuine question for Rizvi? When this century has Australia’s net migration level been properly planned for?
The 2002 Intergenerational Report predicted Australia’s population to hit 26 million in 2042. Yet we got there 20 years early thanks to the federal government’s decision to more than double immigration:
The government ‘planned’ for such levels of growth, leaving leaving infrastructure and housing 20 years behind.
Accordingly, Australians chronically suffer from:
- An extreme shortage of hospital beds and chronic ambulance ramping;
- An extreme shortage of schools;
- An extreme rental shortage, with vacancies at record lows and rents soaring at double-digit rates; and
- An extreme shortage of public housing.
Each of these policy areas have been made worse by the high immigration levels that Abul Rizvi has forever supported.
Abul Rizvi also conveniently ignores that the overwhelming majority of Australians do not support a return to pre-COVID levels of immigration, nor higher:
Nor do they want Australia’s population to grow further:
Why do policy elitists like Abul Rizvi always ignore the wishes of the Australian people, and then resort to labelling them ‘racist’ for espousing such views?.
Why aren’t the public’s views and opinions on immigration and population growth warranted?
