Up-and-coming Australian Twitter parody news account, the Economic Zone Formerly Known As Australia (EZKFA) was firing all guns at the Albanese government this week. Especially over its plans to import hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, at a time when Australians are struggling to afford rentals or to buy homes, and hospitals systems are on the verge of collapes.
Albanese kicks off National Skills Week with announcement of more imported cheap labour.
Albanese confident that struggling hospital and ambulance systems can easily cope with another 200,000 migrants a year.
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In satura est veritas, as the Romans might have said: “In satire there is truth”. Like the Babylon Bee, EZKFA’s satire is just a breath away from being the news.
NSW is demanding Anthony Albanese “stamp the passports” of tens of thousands of foreign workers waiting to get to Australia and create a new class of low-skilled visas to address a “worker drought” that could leave the country $80bn poorer.
The cabal of politicians and big business who are addicted to mass immigration aren’t even pretending it’s about “skilled workers” any more. They’re finally admitting the truth: it’s all about flooding the country with cheap, low-skill foreign labour.
Like the upper middle-classes of California, who rely on migrants, often illegal, for cheap domestic labour, Australia’s big businesses and their political cronies are determined to cling to their own “wetbacks”.
“It is natural that unions will seek to limit immigrant worker numbers, but the most important voices are those of small business owners who are crying out for staff,” Matt Kean says.
Get that, working classes? Your voices are not important. Who cares if you have to put up with jammed roads, bursting classrooms, months-long waits to see a GP, skyrocketing house prices, and all the other delightful side-effects of never-ending mass immigration? Somebody’s gotta pick the fruit at the lowest wages possible.
Writing in The Australian on Monday, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean says his state needs urgent action to boost the supply of workers. Mr Kean says there are “practical solutions available”, including the commonwealth temporarily increasing the number of skilled visa places – with a particular focus on the care workforce – and establishing a new visa category that “targets lower-skilled occupations and allows a wider pool of workers”.
The impact of a reliance on foreign workers is already being felt in the care workforce: wages are staying appallingly low, while elderly, hard-of-hearing clients are increasingly frustrated with workers whom they can barely understand.
The mass immigration Ponzi merchants are just champing at the bit to exacerbate the housing and hospital crises.
KPMG chief economist Brendan Rynne said the commonwealth would have to “super-size” its immigration targets this decade if it wanted to get back to pre-pandemic migration trends.
The Australian
Who said we want to get back to that, though?
But then, a KPMG chief economist doesn’t have to worry about sitting in a tent outside the emergency department, or trying to afford a house even in an outer suburb over an hour’s commute from work. The elite get all the benefits of mass migration: cheap workers and trendy new restaurants, with none of the downsides.
