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Immigration is terrific and has been an engine of growth for our country for decades. But it must work for us. If we don't have enough homes, importing more people will add to that demand. Importing people who go immediately onto welfare is also another head scratcher. If you come here legally with a job lined up in a skilled area and immediately start earning a wage isn't that what it's meant to be? Isn't that the bare minimum? Economists are obsessed with GDP growth but the only metric that truly matters is GDP per capita. How prosperous is each person and is that getting better or worse. What's the point of growing the economic pie by adding more people if it means we're all getting poorer individually.
Surely we're mature enough as a country to have these discussions without being racist or calling people racist for discussing it.
Immigration is great when immigrants are not from 3rd world counries.
We won't have a hope in hell of building our way out of this housing supply issue if we only take immigrants from first world countries Fong.
I agree with the aspiration that we should encourage immigration that lifts our standard of living by bringing in the most skilled, best and brightest.
But if we do that we're going to have to face into some hard home truths. Us Aussies are going to have to work a darn lot harder and smarter than we do today. And we're going to have to substantially lift the birth rate to avoid becoming Japan.
Governments are too short sighted to face into those hard problems. So lots of immigration from anywhere and everywhere is the easy answer.
I agree it's dumb, but unless we fix the actual problems we can't stop our levels of immigration, plain and simple.
One of the biggest Issues that the government has made far too easy for people to get Centrelink which why so many Aussie born people dont want to work and why we need to bring in 3rd world people to do certain jobs .
100% that GDP per capita is a much better measure - but we won't do that because it'll show our productivity in Australia absolutely sucks.
The actual problem we have in Australia is a productivity and innovation problem. We have never HAD to innovate so we don't, we just rely on being "the lucky country".
Problem is the luck will run out. Minerals are finite. The housing bubble can only inflate so much before it divides the classes beyond ever being able to repair them again.
Other than minerals, we offer nothing to the world.
When we do innovate the only ways for those companies to survive is to leave Australia - Atlassian, Canva etc. They're trying hard to keep Australia relevant but both has to go to the US to make an impact.
If Australia wants to rely on anything other than luck, we need to lift our innovation and productivity. Which means working both smarter AND harder. If we're not willing to do this then the current Ponzi schemes of housing and immigration are the only way to keep us globally competitive and it will continue to create massive wealth gaps (poorer poor and richer rich) and our standard of living will continue to drop.
It's the type of immigration that's the problem. If your house is full are you going to let people come live in it, that don't speak your language or extremely little, who won't follow your house rules, who burn your house flag, etc... I reckon not and that's not being racist it's called using common sense
Mass immigration? Immigration levels are only returning to what they were under the coalition government prior to COVID.
I suggest you look at the Abs data rather the endless lies that this communist pm spews forth. The last two years have had immigration numbers that were the second highest on record.
Rupert is not your friend.
You know they also mean temporary visas.
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