With immigration into Australia continuing to run rampant:
And Australia’s population projected to balloon by another 17.5 million people over the next 48 years, driven purely by mass immigration:
Both Labor and the Coalition continue to throw up smokescreens to alleviate voters’ concerns.
Today, Population Minister Alan Tudge has again spruiked the Coalition’s ‘migrants to the bush’ hopium:
The Morrison government wants to settle more refugees in country towns to stop Sydney and Melbourne from becoming overly congested “megacities”, Population Minister Alan Tudge says.
In a speech to be delivered at The Sydney Morning Herald’s population summit, Mr Tudge will outline the federal government’s plan to ease the pressure on major cities from Australia’s expanded population – which he said had “underpinned our GDP growth”…
“The government is continuing to look at this avenue of supporting regional growth through migration”…
“While we don’t want, and nor would it be feasible, to have some grand master-planned Australia, we do need to take a stronger position on our settlement patterns using the policy levers at our disposal,” he will say.
“The risk otherwise is that in 30 or 40 years’ time, Australia will end up with two or three megacities, but relatively sparse development elsewhere.”
Whereas Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, has spruiked ‘better planning’ and more infrastructure:
…it is critical governments ensure that they respond to population growth with commensurate infrastructure investment or risk real damage to our quality of life.
The current federal government is failing in this task.
Over the five years to 2018, total annual infrastructure investment in this country was down by 17 per cent compared with average levels during the period of the former Labor government.
In the same period, the national population, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, increased by 1.5 million, or 6.5 per cent. The outcomes of this under-investment are manifest across our big cities, most notably with traffic congestion…
Infrastructure investment as an essential component of economic and social policy.
It’s about giving Australians the services they are paying for through their taxes, but also driving economic growth that will benefit their children and grandchildren…
High speed rail down the east coast would completely transform the economies of the regional cities along its route.
What these frauds fail to acknowledge is that with Australia’s population growing by around 400,000 people every year, Australia needs to build the equivalent of a Canberra’s worth of housing and infrastructure to keep pace. This is an impossible task, as the past 15 years of mass immigration has demonstrated:
The only ‘solution’ to maintaining Australia’s liveability is to slash immigration back to historical levels – well below 100,000 people a year – to allow housing and infrastructure to keep pace.
Anything else is treating symptoms, not the cause, and are merely policy smokescreens.
