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“Australia has never been a guest worker country. We’ve never been a country where we bring you in and ship you out.”
Peter Costello, Treasurer, twenty years ago. How quaint that sounds now. Australia has conducted an immigration experiment unique among developed nations – and the bill is arriving with a vengeance.
From 2000 to 2024, our population exploded by 42 per cent, nearly three times the OECD average and twice the rate of the US and Britain. Temporary visa holders now dominate: 2.9 million of them, around 10 per cent of the population. International students alone number over half a million.
Except that ‘temporary’ too often turns into ‘permanent’. ‘Asylum seekers’ who refuse to bugger off back home when the war is long over (though they have no problems taking holidays in the country they supposedly fled from, once they get their claws on an Australian passport and Australian welfare). Chinese and Indians blatantly using ‘student’ visas as a backdoor migration scam.
As a result, an astonishing 32 per cent of us were born overseas. More than half have at least one parent born overseas. In New Zealand, Kiwis are on track to become a minority within the decade. This is not evolution. It is engineered transformation at a speed never before seen in our history.
All major parties spent decades admitting, in private, that they were ignoring public opinion on immigration numbers. The excuse? “Social cohesion.” The result? The complete destruction of social cohesion.
We have imported entrenched antisemitism that culminated in the Bondi massacre. Sydney nurses openly bragged about “killing Jews”, and hospital administration deceitfully changing patients’ names to ‘less Jewish’ ones, to protect them from the very people supposed to be caring for them. African gang crime turned suburban streets into no-go zones. Welfare fraud among certain communities is rampant: Muslim Western Sydney has more NDIS providers per capita than any other part of Australia. Pro-Hamas rallies with open support for terrorism, attacks on Jews and preachers endorsing violence have forced even the establishment to launch a royal commission.
Multiculturalism was sold as enrichment. It delivered a divided Australia. It delivered parallel societies, tribal conflict and the fracturing of the Australian identity.
The elites’ justification is always ‘the economy’. Yet the economic dividend is laughably small, a few hundred dollars per Australian per year at best. For that pocket change we got housing shortages, collapsing per capita wages, infrastructure strain and a nation that young Australians no longer recognise. GDP grew on population Ponzi, not productivity. Living standards stagnated. The nation took the easy road and is now paying the devastating price.
“You cannot bring people to this country if you don’t have the houses for them. It’s that simple.”
Angus Taylor is stating the bleeding obvious. Not that he’ll do anything about it, of course. Both the coalition and Labor are in lockstep. Both escalated immigration while housing construction went backwards. The ratio of migrants to new homes is double what it was. Young Australians are locked out. Intergenerational rage is boiling. Labor’s only answer is taxing the investors who provide rentals even harder.
The whole mass immigration is a vast Ponzi scheme, forced on us in direct contravention of our loudly stated intentions. Polls from Newspoll, Resolve, Lowy and the IPA show clear majorities want lower immigration.
Pauline Hanson is riding that wave because the major parties spent decades treating voters’ concerns as racism rather than reality. Both Labor and the coalition sleepwalked into this. Peter Costello’s permanent migration model was ditched for a temporary guest-worker experiment nobody voted for.
The social costs are worse than the economic ones. Australians were always willing to accept high migration when they believed governments controlled the borders and the intake shared their values. That contract is broken. Bondi, the nurses, African crime, welfare rorts and open Jew-hatred shredded it.
Most Australians would happily trade the marginal economic “benefit” for the Australia they grew up in: safe streets, social trust, affordable housing, and a recognisable national character. They don’t hate migrants. They hate the lying, the refusal to enforce standards, and the demographic replacement sold as inevitable progress.
Australia does not owe the world endless open borders. We owe our own people a country that works for them first. The great experiment has failed. The public mood has turned. The political class can either get ahead of the reset or be run over by it.
The Australia we knew is worth preserving. Most of us would trade the GDP illusion for it in a heartbeat. The elites who engineered this mess should be made to explain why they thought otherwise.
