The Labor Party is supposed to be the party of the Left, the ideological champion of the poor and marginalised classes of society.
Yet its unmitigated and unmanaged open borders dogma is the precise opposite.
Through it, Labor promotes a rabid class war on wage earners, denudes lower classes of affordable homes, degrades the assets of the commons and dramatically favours the owners of capital in land and chosen business sectors such as property, retail and banking.
One of the worst open borders nutters in the federal Labor Party is Andrew Leigh, the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury.
Leigh has spent years spruiking the mass immigration ‘Big Australia’ policy (for example, see here, here, and here).
Last week on ABC’s Q+A, Andrew Leigh was asked by Gabriele Seidel-Wynne, a homeless volunteer, the following question about Labor’s out of control immigration program (video below):
“Has the government taken into account the infrastructure needed for 400,000 people who they intend to allow to settle into Australia?”
“We have a housing crisis and there are more people depending on welfare assistance with the interest rises and cost of living now spiralling out of control – how will this be managed and by whom?”
Andrew Leigh’s response was truly pathetic, spruiking feel good motherhood statements about migration and multiculturalism, rather than bothering to answer the question:
“Migrants aren’t just mouth to feed, but also muscles to build and minds to inspire”…
“Migrants do add to demand, but also supply. They’re also over-represented in the building sector building those new homes”.
“We are trying to ensure that we have the benefits that come from a strong migration program… But also that we are creating the infrastructure at the same time”…
“You’ve gotta make sure that you are investing in the infrastructure… We’re focussing that infrastructure spend to ensure that it unlocks the supply opportunities”.
“We’ve got the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund… And the Help to Buy program that will assist young Australians [buy their home]”.
“But we do need to make sure that we get the benefits of migration because that multicultural story is so much apart of all of us”.
“Those of us that are not indigenous Australians are either migrants or children of migrants”…
“I think we can walk and chew gum on this one Gabrielle. I think we can get the housing and infrastructure right”.
When asked whether she was happy with Leigh’s answer to her question, Gabriele Seidel-Wynne did not hold back her contempt:
“No I’m not… You’re talking about building these things. These things take months to achieve. I’m feeding people in the park, under a bridge, living in cars, families, people that need assistance now”.
“They don’t want to go on a list. They can’t go on a list. They can’t wait for 10 years. They can’t wait for five years or one year”.
“They need help now and there is nowhere for them to go. Their help is extremely limited and things are really desperate”.
“On the ground, where reality is happening, it’s spiralling out of control and people need help”.
Remember, last week’s federal budget forecast population growth of 2.18 million people in only five years driven by net overseas migration of 1.5 million people.
That is the equivalent of five Canberra’s or one Perth’s worth of population increase in just five years.
And it is occurring at the same time as actual dwelling construction is falling:
What should become abundantly clear is that the open borders nutters in the Albanese Government have no plan to deal with the extreme levels of immigration or the suffering of the Australians doing it toughest.
The only outcome from the Albanese Government’s extreme immigration policy is a worsening housing crisis, crush-loaded infrastructure, and a sharp rise in homelessness and suffering.
Let them eat platitudes!
