One of the biggest lies we’re fed by the mass migration lobby is ‘but we need skilled migrants!’ The collapse of Indian migrant-owned property developer Bathla Group is yet another nail in the coffin of this myth. Naturally, Labor are desperate to bail them out.
Not only do ‘skilled’ migrants make up a tiny minority of the millions of Third Worlders who’ve flooded into Australia over the past decade, but even the ‘skilled’ group is mostly made up of extended family. For every pretender in a high-vis vest, we get saddled with the rest of the village bludging on welfare while contributing nothing to Australia.
As for the ‘skills’, YouTuber Site Inspections shows exactly what we’re too often getting. What we’re really building are vast swathes of time-bombs.
So, why are Labor so desperate to bail out this disaster?
NSW Labor firebrand Anthony D’Adam has broken the state government’s silence on the crisis engulfing homebuilder Bathla Group, urging Premier Chris Minns to acquire the developer.
Mr D’Adam called for “bold” intervention “as the foundation for the establishment of a publicly owned housing construction company”, in a letter sent to Mr Minns and Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on Tuesday.
It surely couldn’t be that Bathla was in fact operating as a pipeline for Indian grifters and future Labor voters?
Because that is exactly what it was. Home Affairs rubber-stamped Bhart Bhushan’s outfit as an approved visa sponsor, so the developer did what any self-respecting grifter would do: it built a migration agency literally inside its own head office. Brothers Migration & Education Pty Ltd has sat there since 2016, split 50-50 between Bathla operations manager Mohit Pajni and Raj Mohan, son of co-founder Rajinder Mohan. The registered migration agent lists the same Bathla HQ as his business address on the government’s own register.
A complete foreign recruitment pipeline under one roof. Sign up pretend ‘students’ or just openly import workers to replace Australians, sign off the paperwork and turn temporary labour into permanent residents. Not a single step requires giving an Australian a go.
Bathla went belly up on 25 August owing a staggering $3.4 billion, and Teneo administrator Stephen Longley admits “quite a lot” of its 350 workers are on visas. Every single one of those roles was a spot an Australian could have been trained to fill.
Bathla’s own painter job ad proves how they bypassed locals, dangling a visa to anyone overseas willing to jump at $75,000. Border Force already slapped sanctions on Bathla’s construction arm in 2022 for violating rules that guarantee sponsored staff equal pay and conditions, yet Tony Burke’s Home Affairs department happily kept the firm on its approved sponsor list as recently as April this year.
Staff went eight weeks without pay before the collapse. Under the rules, an approved sponsor must notify Home Affairs within 28 days if it goes bust. Silence. Labor had already tripled the window for sponsored workers to find a new boss from 60 days to 180 and scrapped the rule tying them to their nominated trade. A painter imported by Bathla can now spend six months working any job for any employer before anyone even asks them to leave. The company that brought them here exploding does not send a single one of them packing.
Meanwhile the taxpayer picks up the tab. Fair Entitlements Guarantee covers citizens and permanents. The ATO is owed $145 million, NSW $42 million in land tax. The developer that chose imported labour over training locals has left the bill with the people it never hired.
This was never a skills shortage. It was a training collapse Labor engineered. Working on a build site a few years back, the builder was open that his apprentice was practically a charity job. It almost cost him more in compliance fees and red tape than the money the extra hand brought in.
Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese boasts of 814,000 Free TAFE enrolments – fewer than one in three have finished a course. Trade apprenticeship commencements fell again in 2025: third year running. Four in 10 who start never finish. A first-year apprentice painter on the award gets $17 an hour while the labourer carrying his buckets gets $29. Labor’s $10,000 completion bonus works out to $40 a week. Commencements still fell.
Pauline Hanson told the Leadership Matters forum in July that Canberra “cut apprenticeships and traineeships. We’ve stopped training our own”, declaring that “the skilled migration program is a farce. Less than half of those visas go to an actual skilled worker”.
Bathla’s choice was simple: pay an Aussie kid $654 a week for four years, or fly in a painter arranged by the visa shop down the corridor. Three – or a million – guesses which.
All this went on with the government’s full knowledge. ASCI has been briefing the government and Treasurer Jim Chalmers admits, that “this specific company has been having difficulties for some time”. Still they kept the visa factory open and chugging at full speed.
We revealed last week that 1,540 NSW builders went under in a single year while Minns wrote off $8.4 billion, and on Tuesday the premier was over in India pitching for more migrants while the very builders meant to house them were going broke. Since the housing accord kicked off in 2024, over 7,000 construction firms have gone bust, and Labor’s lazy response to every single collapse has been shipping in more visas instead of training local apprentices.
It’s not the first time the watchdogs have gone sniffing around Bhushan. In 2011 ASIC forced him to admit “unconscionable conduct” over vendor-finance loans to vulnerable Sudanese and Filipino migrants, including some on welfare. Fifteen years later the same character was an approved visa sponsor with a migration agency in the hallway.
Home Affairs hasn’t disclosed how many foreign workers it rubber stamped for Bathla or whether a single Australian was ever offered those jobs first.
Well, they wouldn’t, would they? Labor are too busy organising Tony Burke’s next round of mass citizenship handouts, just in time for the next election.
