Daves2017 wrote on May 13
th, 2025 at 10:44pm:
Unless I read the results from the last election wrong way around the vast majority of Australians support immigration!
What is that quote from Churchill?
“ democracy is a failure but still better than all the other systems of government “?
We in this country a once in a lifetime opportunity for a government to be able too work legislation the house of reps and have it green stamp by the senate.
Let us not waste this, I embrace it.
I want at least 20% quota of “ New Australians “ taken from refugees camps in our sphere of very, very, very limited influence.
Asia.The South Pacific and Png.
It’s the only humane thing to do as , really a very rich society plus I believe that people with nothing but their hands and feets and a heartbeat 💓
Will stay and embrace our country and it’s limitless opportunities over registered nurse from Ireland who is little more on a make big money while rooting around tour till her green card is approved.
Immigration and multiculturalism was the issue neither side wanted to touch in the election campaign, even though it impacted heavily on the cost-of-living crisis both sides were pledged to address; even though it contributed to the wave of anti-Semitism both sides were pledged to stop, and; even though both sides had said they were committed to getting immigration numbers down.
But once discussing immigration moves from the need to get it down to the practical steps to cut it, the vested interests it benefits are prone to take offence: the universities, colleges and language schools whose business model depends on fee-paying overseas students seeking to work and to immigrate rather than just study and return; the businesses that would prefer to import labour rather than train Australians, or to pay people more to do menial jobs; the reform-shy officials who’ve been relying on immigration as the lazy way to generate positive economic growth, and; the moralists who want large numbers of migrants to dilute the Anglo culture they find dull or otherwise dislike; plus a lot of recent immigrants inclined to take personally any critique of high immigration.
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Immigration at scale certainly adds to the size of the overall economy. But it only adds to individuals’ wealth if the newcomers, on average, are more productive than the locals. And even if it does add to wealth, it only adds to social wellbeing if nearly all the newcomers are keen to fit in, which can’t always be taken for granted.
We claim to be the world’s most successful immigrant nation but can we stay that way, based on official bromides such as “our diversity is our unity” – in other words, that
all we have in common is that we don’t have anything in common? Increasingly, this is an issue for every immigrant nation, especially the Anglosphere countries, wracked with doubt and guilt about their history: slavery, colonialism and the dispossession of the original inhabitants.
We’re perfectly entitled to discriminate on the basis of values, if we’re to avoid importing destructive passions. And if we’re proud of Australia as it is, as we’re entitled to be, we should be wary of immigration that risks making the native-born feel like strangers in their own neighbourhoods.https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/immigration-is-the-elephant-still-cr...
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