If you want a prime example of how Australia is not run for Australians, but rather for the profit of rich, important people, look no further than the below incessant lobbying to open Australia’s international border by our cabal of business lobby groups:
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is on a collision course with Australia’s biggest business lobby groups over tough international border restrictions…
Ai Group, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Business Council of Australia are warning business activity and jobs growth are constrained by closed borders stopping the majority of arrivals and departures during the coronavirus pandemic…
“Opening our international borders is a critically important step in economic recovery for a trading nation like Australia,” [ACCI chief executive James Pearson] said…
Ai Group chief executive Innes Willox [said]… “The ban on Australians travelling overseas may have made sense as an early emergency measure but it is today a barrier to business that can be easily and safely removed”…
BCA chief executive Jennifer Westacott said the nation’s success was built on being open to the world, in terms of attracting skilled migration and exporting products and services…
“Business and governments must continue to work together to get the right national system in place to manage and suppress the virus, open ourselves back up and get on with creating new jobs to fuel our recovery”…
Coalition MPs are also supporting an increase in the cap on how many people can arrive from overseas, as well as a robust quarantine system for returning Australians.
Let’s be honest for a minute. Given merchandise trade is still carrying on as normal, these special pleadings from the business lobby are really about rebooting mass immigration.
Australia’s businesses have become addicted to ponzi growth – i.e. importing hundreds of thousands of warm bodies every year to take out mortgages, fill high rise slums, boost retail sales, and crush-load infrastructure (necessitating expensive new investment).
And without this extra demand every year, many of Australia’s large businesses can no longer grow their sales or profits.
The welfare of ordinary Australians left dealing with the negative impacts from mass immigration – e.g. greater competition in the labour market and lower wages, increased congestion and longer commute times, having to live in smaller and more expensive housing, higher infrastructure costs, and a degraded environment – is never considered by these shills.
Nor do they consider the added health risks from importing thousands of potential virus carriers from infected nations into a quarantine system that is already under stress and has experienced systemic failures (see Melbourne).
All it takes is a few quarantine breaches to see the virus spread like wildfire, leading to more shutdowns, economic carnage and death, as Melbourne is currently experiencing.
Australia’s international border must remain closed to everyone but returning Australians. No exceptions.
