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Even back in the 1980s, Bob Hawke admitted that the elite were completely out of step with mainstream Australia on the issue of mass immigration. Worse, they engaged in a deliberate conspiracy of silence: “There are no other issues on which the major parties have been prepared to act in this way, with the common cement of ACTU support.” But all the bullying, berating and outright lying, of the mass immigration-addicted elite, has failed. Survey after survey shows that a strong and growing majority of Australians want mass immigration to end – even first-generation migrants.
So the elites just lie and bully harder. They lie that mass immigration is needed ‘to attract skilled migrants’: less than 12 per cent of the 1.5 million people imported every two years are ‘skilled migrants’ (a classification which includes masseuses and dog walkers). They lie that certain types of migrants aren’t over-represented in violent crimes.
And they lie through their teeth that migrants aren’t exacerbating, indeed largely responsible, for the housing crisis that has locked a generation of young Australians out of the home-buyer market.
To really rub salt into the wound, they secretively hand millions of taxpayer dollars to non-citizens, so they can buy houses Australians can’t afford any more.
Australian taxpayers have helped nearly 50,000 migrants purchase new homes since mid-2023 under just one generous scheme available to non-citizens.
A viral social media post over the weekend has reignited debate online over whether the taxpayer-funded grants should be restricted to Australian citizens only.
“Hi everyone, we’re expecting to receive our Subclass 191 PR soon,” an anonymous user posted in the Property Forum Australia Facebook group.
A Subclass 191 Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa is for non-citizens to live and work in Australian permanently – and, as we see, amass an investment portfolio, while Australian citizens are living in tents.
“Our plan is to first purchase a new home using the First Homeowner Grant, and then, 3-6 months later, buy an investment property.”
Could there be anything more guaranteed to make an Australian paying skyrocketing rent and unable to save up the lazy 200 grand for a deposit on an average mortgage now nudging toward a million dollars, more incandescent with fury?
Permanent residents in Australia can access a range of first homeowner grants.
That is: foreigners can grab Australian taxpayers’ money in order to push Australians out of the housing market.
Meanwhile the federal government’s five per cent deposit scheme, first introduced in 2020 as the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme, expanded eligibility to permanent residents in mid-2023, sparking a flood of applications.
As of this month, more than 48,000 permanent residents have used the scheme – or nearly one in five of the total since its inception.
Under the scheme, administered by Housing Australia, the government acts as a guarantor for the remaining 15 per cent of the deposit […] the 2% Deposit Scheme, offered to single parents or legal guardians, is also offered to permanent residents […]
Access to the scheme was further expanded in October through the removal of income caps, increased property price caps and the introduction of unlimited places.
The scheme also doesn’t bother checking if permanent residents own property in their own country.
Independent property researcher Cameron Kusher noted that migrants could still access Australian first homeowner grants even if they already owned property overseas […]
“I once asked the ABS if they knew if migrant buyers were accessing first home buyers grants and if they knew whether these migrant buyers already had homes overseas,” Mr Kusher wrote on X.
“They said they did not know. I suspect anyone buying their first property in Australia largely has access to FHB grants.”
The venal elites responsible for this shocking state of affairs are blissfully ignorant of just how they sound, to struggling Australians.
“This represents a significant milestone for Housing Australia and the Australian government five per cent deposit scheme,” Housing Australia chief executive Scott Langford said in a statement last week […]
Housing Australia said since 2020, the scheme had resulted in close to 30,000 new homes built, contributing to Australia’s housing supply.
So, 30,000 homes in five years… at the same time that we’ve imported over one and half million people.
You do the maths.
Is it any wonder millions of voters are flocking to One Nation, the only party flatly promising to slash immigration?
