The statistics are stunning. Nearly 30 per cent of Australia’s population is now foreign-born, while Greater Sydney and Melbourne now boast a foreign-born population of around 45 per cent. According to data conducted by NSW Parliament, some electorates of Sydney saw a 79 per cent change in their foreign-born population in the last four years, with some suburbs, including the electorate of Sydney, well on their way towards being majority foreigners. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has previously boasted that Australia is ‘the world’s most successful multicultural country’, yet one wonders how long that will last. A recent spate of violent inter-ethnic attacks, robberies, and killings threatens this harmony.
Moreover, ‘White flight’ is a touchy term that many would call a dog whistle, but as data found in 2018 by The Australian found, the truth is that it’s a statistical reality. In 2016, suburbs in Western Sydney witnessed a mass exodus of locals – typically Anglo-Saxon Australians – while at the same time receiving massive inflows of migrant arrivals. This means that with immigration ramped up to record highs, we might now see the same happen not just in other Sydney suburbs, but in Sydney itself. Note that last year 121,000 New South Welshmen left the state, with most moving to Queensland.
Witnessing the dramatic change of the neighbourhood you grew up in is now a common story for many Australians, old and young. The once-homogenous area my father grew up in is now over 60 per cent foreign-born, with above-average crime rates and poverty.
Many will argue that having a majority foreign-born population is not necessarily a bad thing. But nobody to date has bothered to argue why exactly it’s a good thing either. The question of ‘how does this policy outcome benefit Australians?’ was never really answered. It kind of just happened, without a single word of discussion – as if it were an act of nature, and not a direct result of, government policy. The only words ever spoken about the matter are those from people like Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, who kept repeating the same old mantra of our times, that ‘diversity is our greatest strength’.
Entire suburbs and cities of Australia have now had their composition radically changed. Yet it is deeply unfashionable to discuss such changes – unless, of course, you’re promoting it. ‘A great strength for Australian society…’ Multicultural leaders praise nation’s growing diversity’ headlines a recent publicly-funded SBS article.
And it isn’t just the social changes from immigration putting pressure on Australia, it’s the economy too.
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