In the fast-evolving Communist self-censorship public forum of Australia, a man has broken ranks with the enforced media consensus.
His name is Salvatore Babones, an American sociologist based at the University of Sydney.
If being an American was not enough to invoke cancellation Article One, his arguments certainly are. Buried deep in an ashamed AFR is this horrific truth.
When the government’s Economic Reform Roundtable meets from August 19-21, everything will be on the agenda. Everything, that is, except for the one forbidden word. Immigration.
The Australian immigration debate focuses on the high-skilled permanent migration target. But most immigrants to Australia are not permanent, and not high-skilled.
Massive influxes of low-skilled workers are obvious drivers of trends in labour productivity. But they’re not even mentioned in recent Reserve Bank of Australia and Productivity Commission reports.
Lordy, I’m having a panic attack. This is racist! It’s Trumpist! It’s both!
That it is also the truth is irrelevant.
What matters are my conditioned feelings of outrage!
Net migration in 2020-2021 was just 4300 people, with high-skilled Australians returning from overseas as low-skilled temporary immigrants went home. Productivity growth over that period was a cumulative 4.6 per cent.
Productivity growth came to a screeching halt when the borders opened in 2022. Australia added 1.3 million net immigrants in 2022-2024. And over that period, productivity fell by an unprecedented 4.6 per cent
If you flood the labour market with low-skilled immigrants, real wages (adjusted for inflation) will fall, and productivity will decline as labour is used less efficiently. It’s that simple.
That’s eugenics! It’s imperialism! It’s human sacrifice! Cannibalism!
Lava is pouring down my face!
What is Evil University thinking? Have this Satanic worshipper silenced immediately.
Raise the gangways. Shove off. Batten down the hatches. Dive, dive, dive.
Pivot to Palestine!
