Migration surge under Albanese adds nearly 1100 people to Australia each day

Barnaby Joyce’s claim comes as The Australian can reveal the nation’s rising migration rate under Anthony Albanese.

Rosie Lewis and
David Tanner

Barnaby Joyce says the Bondi Beach massacre was the “political bomb” that sparked One Nation’s extraordinary rise, with his defection from the Nationals making it socially acceptable to be a Pauline Hanson supporter.

The former deputy prime minister said he was surprised One Nation’s primary vote had surpassed Labor’s for the first time in Newspoll history but believed Australians had changed and had a gutful of politicians overpromising and underdelivering in a country that should be one of the wealthiest on Earth.

“People say ‘I’m sorry, I’m over giving you a chance’. And people think it’s just migration. It’s migration and everything else. Migration is merely one issue. There was a political bomb ready to go off and Bondi lit the fuse,” Mr Joyce told The Australian.
“Pauline had built up a party and I gave people licence to be open about their new religion. It became socially acceptable to say ‘I’m One Nation’.”

Mr Joyce’s intervention comes as The Australian can reveal the rate of migrants entering the country each day under Anthony Albanese has eclipsed the daily intake of all governments back to the Hawke era.

Analysis by The Australian of Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows the population has increased by an estimated 1375 per day since the Prime Minister won the May 2022 election, more than double the rate of both the Hawke-Keating government and John Howard’s Coalition.

When the population increase is broken down into natural increase (the difference between births and deaths) and migration, the Albanese government stands out even further.

Under the current government, net overseas migration has added an estimated 1091 people per day, compared with: 653 in the Rudd-Gillard years; 453 in the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison years, which included the Covid closed borders period; 309 in the Howard years, and; 238 under Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.

With natural increase at its lowest in the past 40 years,

net overseas migration has contributed 79 per cent of population growth under the Albanese government

, compared with just 40 per cent in the Hawke-Keating years.




Mr Albanese said he wanted a sustainable Australia with the “right population”, while acknowledging Australians were frustrated the economy wasn’t working for them, as opposition immigration spokesman Jonno Duniam conceded Liberal prime ministers held some responsibility for migration policies that had angered voters and led to a resurgent One Nation.





https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/migration-surge-under-albanese-adds-near...


Is it any wonder that we have Ambulance ramping; a housing shortage crisis; overcrowded hospitals; massive waiting lists for medical treatment; overcrowded schools and overcrowded public transport?