A new survey from the The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) has asked voters whether they want Australia to return to pre-COVID levels of 240,000 annual net overseas migration (NOM) or above, or whether they would prefer lower levels.
Only 18% of respondents supported pre-COVID levels of immigration, with 70% wanting lower levels of immigration (of which 42% want significantly lower or zero immigration):
Most voters believe Australia is already diverse enough from a cultural perspective:
And before anybody tries to play the “racism card”, it is worth pointing out that the majority of non-English speaking background voters also do not support returning to pre-pandemic levels of immigration:
The overwhelming majority (65%) of voters also do not believe that Australia needs more people:
The main reasons why those people believe Australia doesn’t need more people is because of livability concerns.
In particular, our cities are too overcrowded and congested:
Our hospitals are overcrowded:
Australia’s natural environment is under stress:
And adding more people will push up the cost of housing:
Why wasn’t the Albanese Government honest with the Australian public and informed them during the recent federal election campaign that Labor would ramp-up immigration to record levels once elected?
Because Labor knew that if they told voters they planned to ramp immigration, they would have lost the election.
As explained by former senior Immigration Department official, 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”.
Instead, the Albanese Government used September’s hand-picked Jobs & Skills Summit as a trojan horse to gain a fake consensus to ramp immigration to its highest ever level. And now it is using the Orwellian Centre for Population’s Population Statement, its $42 million for ‘visa backlogs’, and the upcoming fake migration review to ramp immigration even higher.
Once again, the wishes of actual Australian voters that elect our politicians are being ignored in favour of providing cheap labour and demand to Big Business, Big Property, and the Education-migration industry – all of whom privatise the gains from mass immigration while socialising the costs.
And with it, the Albanese Government will lock Australia into another lost decade of anaemic wage growth, worsening housing affordability, crush-loaded infrastructure, a degraded environment, and declining living standards.
With friends like “Labor” the Australian voters sure don’t need enemies.
