John Roskam of the appalling IPA has a good argument today:
In an article published a few days after Christmas, Paul Sakkal the federal political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age made a comment both perceptive and revealing.
“In February, Dutton declared the Liberals and Nationals were ‘the parties of the Australian working class’, a jarring statement for those wishing for a more progressive Liberal Party.”
…A few years ago the Herald described the Howard battlers of western Sydney in the 1990s. “They typically had a mortgage and worked in blue-collar jobs. They were concerned about interest rates, suspicious of high migration levels, worried about terrorism and often held socially conservative views.“
Thirty years later maybe Dutton’s working class are less likely to have a blue-collar job but with one addition, the essentials are the same – the fear their children will never be able to afford to buy a home.
Canada is having a debate about immigration and housing that parallels that in Australia.
There, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre last week announced a future Tory government would “make a link between the number of homes built and the number of people we invite as new Canadians” and he wants to “get back to an approach of immigration that invites a number of people that we can house, employ, and care for in our healthcare system”.
And he is smashing it:
There are many advantages to this policy platform for the Dutton Opposition. If the cut to immigration is to 100k or below it outflanks Albo’s dills on:
- housing, as prices rise less;
- interest rates, that fall more;
- wages, that rise more;
- environment, that is destroyed less;
- national security, which is stronger;
- social cohesion, which is stronger, and
- campaign rhetoric, that gives the press Dutton derangement syndrome and puts the majority off.
In short, it gives Aussies their country back versus a globalist elite, what they most want from Canberra.
It is a one-policy wrecking ball for Albo’s progressives, who are in bed with globe-trotting corporations as they join hands in an immigration-led demolition of the majority of Australians’ living standards.
This one policy wins the election in a landslide:
Source: The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI)
