It’s astonishing how many of the most consequential changes foisted on Australian society were done so without the explicit consent of the Australian people. From multiculturalism to a plethora of foreign ‘conventions’, Australian society has been distorted beyond recognition by massive changes forced on the populace from above.
Any time anyone dared question the rule-by-fiat of “the elite Revolution that rules unsullied by elections”, as poet Les Murray put it, they were simply bullied into silence by the elite. In the 1980s, historian Geoffrey Blainey warned that massively altering the demographic make-up of Australia via mass immigration was a recipe for social fracture and disaster.
While Blainey may have underestimated the willingness of South-East Asian communities to knuckle down and assimilate into mainstream Australia, other immigrants were very much not. Under Malcolm Fraser, Australia’s Muslim population nearly doubled, nearly all from the boondocks of Lebanon. How’s that worked out for us?
The massive wave of Indian migrants, who are mostly Hindu or Sikh, will likely prove more like the South-East Asian migrants of the 1980s than the Muslims of the ’70s (or today), but the sheer scale of Indian migration in recent years is unprecedented. No one has, or has been allowed to, question whether or how this tsunami of foreigners will affect Australian society. If nothing else, ‘Singh’ has in just a few years become Melbourne’s most common surname.
Perhaps it will all work out – perhaps it won’t. But surely Australians have the right to question it. After all, if 27 million white Australians flooded into India in just a few years (which it would have to be, to replicate the scale of demographic change), you can bet Indians would have something to say about it and far less politely than even the most loudmouthed Australian: after all, thousands have died in anti-Muslim riots in India in recent years.
But how did this astonishing demographic tidal wave even happen? Like the ’70s’ Lebanese Muslim wave, blame it on a virtue-signalling Liberal ‘wet’.
In 2016, [Malcolm Turnbull] entered into the Australia-India social security agreement.
In theory this is a reciprocal arrangement. In practice, it only works one way, just like similar trans-Tasman arrangements. How many Australians move to New Zealand for work or welfare, compared to vice-versa? (I can answer that: 17,500 Australians migrated to NZ in 2023, while 44,500 Kiwis went the other away.)
Similarly, how many Australians are going to move to India for the social security? (Again, I can answer: just 3–4,000 Australians live in India, while 916,330 Indians now live in Australia.)
Gee, I wonder why.
Within this agreement, Australia and India would provide RECIPROCAL Medicare and Social Security benefits between the two countries, INCLUDING the Aged Pension […]
Since that deal in 2016, India has been the largest source of migrants for the last 10 years.
That’s hardly surprising when you do the sums.
Australian taxpayers are being royally ripped off.
Taxes on 10 years of a median wage of circa $80,000 is $20,000 pa or $200,000.
The pension over the next 17 years assuming median age of death of 84 is $510,000 before free health, pension supplements and housing costs.
We’re carrying the dead weight of a hundreds of freeloading subcontinental families.
Fast forward to today, with just 12 per cent of all migration being “skilled”, the balance exist on various visa including families and the aged parent visa, which allows parents to stay indefinitely.
Citizenship is not required, nor is residency. Just a permanent visa, including the aged parent visa subclass 804 which also entitles Medicare access. You only need prove you’ve been here for 10 years or as little as one if you paid into an insurance pension in India.
There is no Newly Arrived Resident's Waiting Period (NARWP) specifically for Age Pension.
Further to this, the NDIS scheme is also open for Indian migrants, including permanent visa holders.
So, immigrants who’ve contributed not a cent of tax are entitled to scarf up aged pensions that Australians have paid through the nose in tax to fund.
And we never got a single say in it.
