This is as pathetic as it is predictable. No media outlet in Australia is a greater cheerleader for population growth than The Guardian. Who can forget its hateful credo:
Immigration – because there are many desperate to hate – must be treated with extreme care by politicians and journalists…The inherently racist parties will seek to use any discussion and any seeming evidence of the negative impact of migrants as fuel to burn their fires of hate.
Yet it covers the direct consequences of its own hatred while wearing the same high-handed hairshirt:
James had been living in his apartment in inner Sydney for more than two years when the agent called and told him he had to move within seven days.
On day seven of his frantic search he went home and the locks had been changed. He called the agents and they would not answer. He spent the next two weeks sleeping in the park.
James, who did not want to use his real name, works as a forklift driver in Botany. He is on a casual contract and on a good week makes about $900.
But in this housing crisis a job is often not a strong enough shield for homelessness and James is among a growing cohort of people who are employed but don’t have a stable home.
…“Virtually no part of Australia is affordable for aged care workers, early childhood educators, cleaners, nurses and many other essential workers we rely on,” Anglicare Australia’s executive director, Kasy Chambers, said.
“They cannot afford to live in their own communities.”
This is not a bug in the system. It is the system. Its goal is to evict hated working classes from city suburbs and send them into the waiting arms of the blood-sucking property developers miles from anywhere.
The fake left spends all day suppressing debate about the cause of it – mass immigration – while talking up the impossible solution of increasing supply.
Always ignored is that we build more houses than just about anybody. But the problem keeps getting worse anyway. You can’t retrofit 200-year-old cities fast or affordably enough.
The ABC is part of the fake left too. Laura Tingle is its most rarified creature. Somehow she is allowed to break every rule to publish at the ABC and AFR simultaneously as she pumps working-class hate:
In general, there is some really weird stuff going on in the housing market. The demand for housing, including rental properties, is surging, yet the rate of building approvals and commencements is slumping.
The Urban Development Institute of Australia noted earlier in the year that the greenfield development sector experienced an unprecedented 49 per cent reduction in sales activity in 2022.
It’s not just “weird”. Interest rates have kept rising in 2023 thanks to immigration-fed rents and Labor’s energy cowardice. These are facts.
At this rate, Laura will be arguing it’s weird that we think the earth is round. She already is:
Last week, Bureau of Statistics data on building approvals showed the largest quarterly drop in over a decade, down 18 per cent for all dwellings and 21.4 per cent for apartments. What’s more, the average price of constructing a new dwelling has risen 50 per cent since before the pandemic.
Inflation, the surge in interest rates and a slowing economy have all played a part in these numbers. But they highlight that the housing supply issue isn’t in any way just about surging migration, as some would have it at the moment.
There has been an almost relentless string of construction company collapses, many caught out by being squeezed by rising prices when they had written fixed-price contracts.
There’s a shortage of tradies which is slowing down construction. But there are also less-immediately-obvious skills shortages that are affecting the development process: town planners, surveyors and building certifiers, to name a few.
The surge in natural disasters is also slowing things down. Local government in particular has to now deal with a range of emergency services to get a tick on whether houses, or even developments, are resilient to fire and flood.
We know why construction companies are collapsing. Rising costs and falling demand in slim margin business. See, in part, mass immigration.
We know why tradies are in short supply. Mass immigration-related infrastructure projects have vacuumed them all up. And we are importing mass unskilled labour from the Third World not to boost productivity but to suppress the wages of the same hated working-class Australians.
Natural disasters, Laura? When was the last time we had a natural disaster in the major migrant settlements of Sydney and Melbourne?
Trying to survive ABC’s diversity pogroms isn’t easy, but resorting to hateful propaganda isn’t the answer.
The truth of it is this. The corporate diversity propaganda of Australia’s politico-housing complex has absorbed the fake left. Or perhaps it is the other way around.
Either way, the politico-housing complex is designed to achieve just one outcome: rising property prices. It does not care how. It does not care who gets hurt along the way. It does not care about the nation or individual.
It is the number one force of production in the Australian economy, and its number one tool for achieving its goal is mass immigration.
Class war is as timeless as wealth and power, and the fake left is its most hateful hypocrite.
