Australians are fed up with the immigration-led economic model. It’s in every poll.
- Australian Population Research Institute: 54% want lower immigration;
- Newspoll: 56% want lower immigration;
- Essential: 54% believe Australia’s population is growing too fast and 64% believe immigration is too high;
- Lowy: 54% of people think the total number of migrants coming to Australia each year is too high;
- Newspoll: 74% of voters support the Turnbull government’s cut of more than 10% to the annual permanent migrant intake to 163,000 last financial year; and
- CIS: 65% in the highest decile and 77% in the lowest believe that immigration should be cut or paused until critical infrastructure has caught up.
Australians are not racist. They have been more generous than any other people with their borders.
Australians want lower immigration because they have lived through more than a decade of the immigration-led economic model. They know it lowers living standards via wage suppression, wrecked productivity, crushloaded public services, housing permacrisis, ruined environment, and crime. They also know it because COVID gave them a glimpse of the alternative, and it’s much better!
Now we can add gerrymandering to the list of immigration downsides as Labor uses Indians to marginalise everybody else.
Indian migrants voted strongly for Labor at the 2022 federal election:
Polster Kos Samaris estimated that 85% of Indian migrants voted for Labor at the recent federal election. Read here for further evidence.
Albo is clearly doing it on purpose. He signed the two worst labour market agreements with India in the history of Australia.
- The Australia-India Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement.
- The Mechanism for Mutual Recognition of Qualifications.
It is fatuous to blame anybody but Labor for this, so bravo Jacinda Price. Why wouldn’t an indigenous leader be pissed as waves of foreign peoples invade her nation all over again? Why doesn’t the Fake Left jump up and down about that? Is this not Invasion Day 2.0?
The senator’s suggestion that the Albanese government’s migration program favoured some countries over others to win votes – with specific reference to the Indian community – threatens to inflict far more political damage to the Coalition than, for example, her ill-timed “Make Australia Great Again” rally cry during the May election.
Ley and other senior Liberals quickly denounced Price’s statement and sought to patch up ties with the Indian community – including with a walk-through in Sydney’s Harris Park, known as ‘Little India’. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP
The senator’s initial comments to the ABC were not only factually incorrect (Australia has a non-discriminatory migration program) but deeply hurtful to a large and growing diaspora community that the Liberals cannot afford to alienate if it wants to return to power.
Rubbish. They can afford to alienate them big time. And any number of other migrant interest groups, while they are at it. It is in the national interest that they do so.
Indian community whinging is not unique. It is a prime example of Australia losing control of its sovereignty, culture, and liberal democratic traditions. All migrant communities have active lobbies now. Including, notably, China.
Not coincidentally, the Chinese are another diaspora that Albo is misusing to gerrymander Australia. He has a horribly distorted foreign policy to suit Beijing, which coerces the local diaspora, and splits them from the LNP.
Neither LNP nor the nation should accept Albo’s baleful vision of a one-party Labor state run from Delhi, Beijing, or Palestine.
Going softly on immigration has done nothing for the Coalition vote. It needs to go much harder. Indeed, if it does not do so, it will never see power again.
The LNP should use the example of Labor’s Indian gerrymandering to announce a zero immigration policy. Put Price in charge of the immigration portfolio to do it.
Sure, it will engender debate and protest, and that will turn the tide to the LNP, as Albanese is rightly blamed for the underlying division that he is creating.
