Australia recorded its highest ever net overseas migration (NOM) in the year to March, with 454,300 net migrants landing in the country:
The latest visa data to July from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggests that NOM will be even higher when the official 2022-23 financial year figures are released in December:
In turn, Australia will obliterate the federal budget’s projection of 400,000 NOM in the 2022-23 financial year:
Source: Federal Budget
The surge in immigration comes despite Prime Minister Anthony Albanese indicating in January 2022 – four months before the federal election – that his government would run a lower immigration policy if elected:
“His “train locals first” push comes a month after the Labor leader refused to back the government’s plan to bring permanent migration back to 160,000 a year”.
“Writing in The Australian on Wednesday, Mr Albanese says Australia has relied for too long on temporary migrant workers rather than training locals, as he accelerates Labor’s shift against high immigration levels since then prime minister Kevin Rudd backed a “big Australia” in 2009”.
“The lesson (is) clear: Australia is too reliant on overseas workers,” he writes…
“But the long-term solution is to train more Australians to meet our own labour needs”.
Then opposition home affairs spokeswoman, Kristina Keneally, also suggested a Labor-elected government would run a lower immigration policy:
“We must make sure Australians get a fair go and a first go at jobs”, she said.
“Our post-Covid economic recovery must ensure Australia shifts away from its increasing reliance on a cheap supply of overseas, temporary labour”.
However, once elected, the Albanese Government used last year’s hand-picked Jobs & Skills Summit as a trojan horse to gain a fake consensus to lift immigration to its highest ever level.
It then used the Orwellian Centre for Population’s Population Statement, spent $42 million to hire 600 workers to rubber stamp visas applications under the contrived ‘visa backlogs’, the fake migration review, as well as opening up new migration pathways for Indians to lock in permanent high levels of immigration.
Not only has the Albanese Government ramped the permanent and humanitarian migrant intakes to all-time highs, but it has also overseen the largest ever expansion in temporary visas:
Immigration minister, Andrew Giles, also boasted last week that he wants to extend low-paid aged care visa agreements to other sectors:
“The Albanese government will continue to assess and learn from the aged care industry labour agreement and seek to promote this approach where suitable”, Giles said.
”Immigration isn’t a silver bullet – but it will play a vital role in addressing workforce shortages across the Australian economy”.
Why didn’t the Albanese Government tell the Australian people during last year’s federal election campaign that Labor would lift immigration to record levels if elected?
Because Labor understood that if they told voters they intended to ramp immigration, they would lose the election.
As explained by Abul Rizvi, “if the prime minister were to come out and say, ‘I’m going to increase my migration program to 190,000 per annum as assumed in my budget papers’, he’s gone, 100 per cent. He’ll never say it – and neither will the opposition”.
Yet again, the wishes of Australian voters who elect our politicians were neglected in favour of supplying cheap labour and demand to Big Business, Big Property, and the education-migration complex, all of which privatise the benefits of mass immigration while socialising the costs.
With it, the Albanese Government will lock Australia into another decade of anaemic wage growth, deteriorating housing affordability, overburdened infrastructure, a deteriorated environment, and falling living standards.
Australian workers don’t need enemies when they have “Labor” on their side.
