Remember the below chart showing the immigration-fueled population explosion that is projected to take place across Sydney over the next 20 years, increasing the city’s population by an insane 1.74 million people – the equivalent to adding a Perth to Sydney’s population?
And remember this chart showing that almost all of this population growth will occur in the long suffering West – home to Sydney’s working classes:
Last week, former Labor leader and Western Sydney resident, Mark Latham, penned a call to arms against the immigration ponzi destroying living standards in the West:
Instead of cutting immigration numbers to bring down housing demand and housing prices, Liberal and Labor are focusing on just one side of the housing market: increased supply.
They want to flood the Sydney basin with wall-to-wall urbanisation.
They are building a vast metropolis, extending to Appin in the southwest and abutting the Blue Mountains in the west.
Most of the growth is concentrated in a new residential corridor between Penrith and Camden — building a city the size of Canberra along the spine of the narrow, two-lane Northern Rd.
This is the snake oil of our time: the fantastic notion that in a city already heavily congested, we can swamp Western Sydney with new arrivals and new suburbs and somehow the magic of “improved urban planning” will produce a metropolitan nirvana…
It will never be a liveable city as long as massive immigration numbers overwhelm our suburbs and clog up our roads…
The business lobbyists, economists and MPs pushing for big migration numbers do so safe in the knowledge that overcrowding and congestion will never affect the gentrified, inner-city boroughs in which they live…
We need an Australia-first migration program, designed for the benefit of the people who live here, not those wanting to come here.
For Western Sydney, this means abandoning Big Australia and limiting population growth into the region.
Just days later, the Mayor of Wollondilly Council on the South-Western edge of Sydney, Judy Hannan, forcefully pushed back on the NSW Government’s plan to flood the area with homes and population, demanding the Government first build the required infrastructure.
And over the weekend, The SMH reported that residents of Sydney’s already crowded Inner-West are in revolt against the planned addition of thousands of additional homes:
The government in 2015 announced the draft Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor strategy that featured an increase of 36,000 dwellings in the area…
The strategy proposed an increase of 900 dwellings in Hurlstone Park and 3400 in Dulwich HIll, figures that faced considerable criticism during the public consultation period.
While Hurlstone Park is now set to receive just 100 additional dwellings, Dulwich Hill will still get more than 2000. This increase remains far too large, Labor MP for Summer Hill, Jo Haylen, said.
Ms Haylen said the revised plans still did not take local feedback into account.
“These plans are not sensitive to community expectations. Given that there were thousands of submissions made, I think the community is going to be understandably angry that the government hasn’t listened.”
She said infrastructure in the area wouldn’t be able to cope with the huge influx of residents expected as part of the plans.
“We know the inner west light rail is at capacity, the minister actually spoke about the very issue in Parliament recently,” she said. “Over 75 per cent of public schools in my electorate are close to, or at, capacity.”
She said the lack of green spaces along the corridor meant that sporting clubs, which were already at capacity, would be stretched further.
“There’s a huge lack of open space…”
The Save Dully Group, which was formed in response to the 2015 draft strategy and precinct plans, said the strategy timeline meant the population would expand well before the infrastructure arrived.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: Sydney’s (and Melbourne’s) population pressures are a direct result of the federal government’s mass immigration ‘Big Australia’ program, which has committed to an intake of 200,000 permanent migrants a year ad infinitum:
All these extra migrants – which overwhelmingly choose to settle in Sydney and Melbourne – need to be housed. So as long as this mass immigration madness continues – supported by the Coalition, Labor and The Greens – your suburbs and infrastructure will continue to be crush-loaded. It’s that simple.
Instead of lobbying your state and local governments, turn your sights to your federal member of parliament instead, since they set immigration policy. Also, make sure that you vote Sustainable Australia at the next election and put the three major parties last on your ballot paper. It’s the only way that your voice will be heard by our tin-ear politicians intent on destroying your living standards.
