Brian Ross wrote on Mar 13^th, 2025 at 3:28pm:



Needless to say, that is NOT how it works at all. No refugee is invited. They apply to come here.
They can apply to go to other countries.

Frank wrote on Mar 13^th, 2025 at 5:52pm:


Refugees are invited to come to Australia, Soren. That is how the system works.  Perhaps you missed out on your father being invited here because you were a child at the time.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Frank wrote on Mar 13^th, 2025 at 5:52pm:


Labor did invite 3000 Hamas supporters from Gaza to come here.

While Aussies struggle to find rental homes Albo helped them even furnished it for them.

Albo does more for those from Gaza than homeless Aussies

Conor McGregor erupts on the White House podium:

“Illegal migration is out of control. Some towns have been completely overrun, where the Irish are becoming a minority. There will be no homeland!”

https://x.com/Inevitablewest/status/1901640408112697494

Despite two-and-a-half years of extraordinary net overseas migration, shortages of highly skilled workers have barely improved since the international border reopened in late 2021.

The vast bulk of recent migrants have been low-skilled. This is mostly due to the rise in international students, international graduates, and working holidaymakers. It also reflects the reality that the majority of ‘skilled’ migrants work in lower-skilled jobs.

For example, the 2023 Migration Review showed that 51% of international university graduates with bachelor’s degrees worked in unskilled professions three years after graduation.

For example, nearly 60% of Australian engineers were born abroad, with more than half working in low-skilled positions outside of engineering, such as driving for Uber.

Deloitte Access Economics uncovered that 44% of permanent migrants in Australia were working in jobs below their skill level in 2023. The majority of these underemployed migrants entered through the skilled stream.

Deloitte projected that over 620,000 permanent migrants work below their skill levels and credentials. Of these, almost 60%, or 372,000, entered the skilled migration system.

The oversupply of low-skilled workers is contributing to Australia’s poor labour productivity, as noted by CEDA:

“Labour productivity and wages are closely linked, indicating that migrant labour is not being used as productively as it could be”.

“This decade, migrants have become increasingly likely to work in lower productivity firms”.

Mass immigration has failed to provide the requisite skills, resulting in ongoing infrastructure and housing shortages, as well as environmental degradation.

The optimal solution is to operate a smaller, highly skilled, and well-paid migration system.

The wage floor for all skilled visas should be set higher than the median full-time salary (currenty around $90,000). All skilled visas should be employer-sponsored, allowing qualified migrants to start working in their field of expertise immediately.

All retirement visas, including parental and ‘golden’ tickets, should be abolished.

The flaws of Australia’s migration system cannot be ignored. Australia is depriving poor countries of talent while worsening domestic skill, housing, and infrastructure shortages.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/03/australian-economy-oversupplied-with-lo...

According to Australian Institute of Health and Welfare figures, across the past two years, under the current government, the number of working people who have become homeless has risen by 66 per cent.

Homelessness NSW reports that of those seeking support in the 2023-24 financial year, almost 20 per cent were employed. Seventy per cent of the employed homeless are women and 39 per cent are aged between 18 and 34.

Labor’s failure to manage migration has created an underclass of working-homeless citizens.

And this crisis is not an accident. In 2022 Anthony Albanese, along with Jim Chalmers, attended a Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra with business and university leaders who lobbied the government to lift the permanent migration ceiling and relax working restrictions on international students. The Prime Minister and the Treasurer complied.

In February, 201,490 international students flooded the country, a figure that is 15 per cent higher than the corresponding month in 2024. When the population equivalent of the city of Hobart is landing in Australia in the space of a month, we shouldn’t be surprised when Australian citizens find it hard to secure a rental.

These statistics are simply abstractions on a spreadsheet for the business and university leaders who pushed for such increases. But for those being squeezed out of the housing market, the reality is existential.

Not being able to afford rent means that young people are not starting businesses. It means couples are not having babies.

And it means an entire generation of essential workers is being driven out of the cities in which they work.

Placing our recent immigration figures in context, economics writer Tarric Brooker points out that in 2024, Australia’s population was growing at a rate of 2.05 per cent. That’s double the growth rate of Western Europe, even after the Ukraine war sent hundreds of thousands of refugees westward.

Brooker says a population growth rate of 2 per cent is “the highest level of per capita migration in Australian history excluding the impact of returning servicemen and women following the conclusion of the first world war”.

Why is anyone surprised we continue to have a housing crisis? To keep pace with current migration levels, Australia would need to build 255,000 new dwellings every year. In 2024, 177,700 dwellings were built, leaving a catastrophic shortfall of more than 77,000 homes in a single year.

With international students now arriving at a rate that is 15 per cent higher than in 2024, the 2025 housing deficit is set to explode even further.