by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIA has a government that is literally making people homeless, according to economist Leith Van Onselen.
The somewhat unconventional economist, who is often on ADH TV and other media, is correct.
- Albanese’s dispensation from sensible immigration policy is no accident. It is deliberate.
- Increasing homelessness is only the worst consequence of the PM’s out-of-control policy.
- Immigration is a disaster – again.
Yet despite this, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has joined calls for the introduction of four-year terms. The argument this improves the quality of government remains naive.
The sole consequence in the States is people must wait an extra year to remove a failed government.
ACCOUNTABILITY
It should only be considered federally after the constitution is amended to ensure accountability at all times through Swiss-style Citizen Initiated Referendums (see change.org/takebackyourcountry).
Increasing homelessness is only the worst consequence of the Albanese Government’s out-of-control immigration policy. There is no known benefit. In this, the Albanese Government is not alone.
It appears that governments of the Left across the world seem determined to swamp their countries with enormous numbers of immigrants, including those who have no intention of integrating with the local population.
Worse, there is clear evidence they admit those whose attachment to violently manifesting ancient hatreds has not been abandoned.
Governments can do enormous damage with such policies. On this the Blair government has left the United Kingdom with serious problems almost impossible to resolve.
While the Trump Administration’s attempts to secure the southern border were the most successful of any administration, despite Democrat attempts to thwart them, Joe Biden began to dismantle these immediately he took office.
The result is the conduct of the US immigration program has been effectively outsourced to criminal gangs.
According to Todd Bensman from the Centre of Immigration Studies, the number of illegal (or as they say “undocumented”) immigrants by the end of Biden’s first term is likely to be 10m.
The financial cost is estimated to be US$400b, with the public safety, criminal justice and national security systems facing unprecedented burdens.
To effect this, Biden refused, unconstitutionally, to apply US immigration law.
What he did had far more serious consequences than the two Stuart kings who claimed and exercised a prerogative power to dispense with the law.
One lost his head and the other his throne. But Joe Biden did not even face impeachment.
Albanese’s dispensation not from the law but from sensible immigration policy is no accident. It is deliberate.
What is clear is that dispensing from sensible immigration policy is the price that not only the Albanese Government, but every Labor and Greens politician, federal and State, is willing to have other Australians pay.
This particularly includes those who rent and those younger families hoping to buy.
When they were criticised last year for bringing into Australia the equivalent of Canberra’s population around every eight months, the government, whose leader affirms “my word is my bond”, promised the number of arrivals would this year be reduced to 375,000, with a significantly lower target in subsequent periods.
HIGHEST EVER
Yet, according to official statistics, there were 125,410 permanent and long-term arrivals just this January – the highest ever.
Let us put aside the intriguing question whether this act of moral misfeasance in public office has anything to do with some illicit anticipation that entrants will favour the incumbent government with their votes.
But as they wallow in taxpayer-funded largesse, there is absolutely no doubt that the reigning politicians, and their allies, understand both the total absence of any public benefit and the disastrous consequences of this policy.
Here are just four.
The first follows from the fact that, as Van Onselen points out, with the closure of manufacturing and the clear winding down of agriculture, we are unique in that our principal source of income is the sale of our mineral heritage.
This is done with minimum processing – often by foreign corporations – low taxes and no protection for domestic users.
Except for the courage shown years ago by their former Labor premier, Alan Carpenter, only Western Australia requires that 15 per cent of gas production be reserved for the domestic market.
Those on the east coast are forced to pay top-dollar world prices or even more for Australian gas.
What comes from our mineral wealth is, after mismanagement by the politicians, then divided among a much larger number of people. The result is that each Australian becomes poorer.
The second consequence of out-of-control immigration is the result of Labor’s no-dams policy which would have astounded the great leaders of the Labor Party.
No dams means that there can be little or no development outside of the capitals. In this vast continent not only are rents and house prices impossibly high, but Sydney and Melbourne are becoming even more and more overcrowded.
Services from transport to energy to education, policing and hospitals are placed under increasing pressure.
Instead of standing up to this, the premiers, especially Chris Minns, act as Canberra’s obedient servants, agreeing to turn the cities into vertical slums.
The third consequence is significantly increased federal taxation receipts.
GARGANTUAN
Unlike all other federations, the federal government enjoys a gargantuan proportion of all taxes, around 80 per cent.
About half of this goes to the States in grants, but this allows Canberra to intervene in policy areas intended to be the sole preserve of the States.
This removes that important tool for good policy, competitive federalism. That the people have never agreed to this constitutional change unfortunately does not excite the High Court as much as the welfare of illegal immigrant detainees.
Nor has this led to better policies. For example, federal involvement, including massive school funding, has been accompanied by a disastrous fall in results compared with other countries.
Another is the GST to replace unconstitutional State taxes. Instead of paying States what is collected in their territory, the socialist principle, that the more a State government fails the greater its return, applies.
A fourth consequence is to increase the funds controlled by Labor’s captured superannuation industry whose tentacles increasingly extend into big business.
Hence the absence of action normal in comparable countries countering price-gouging and other reprehensible practices by monopolists.
Out-of-control immigration is a disaster.PC
Ask why the National Security Committee was changed removing security intelligence officers and replacing them with Blackout and a climate hoax follower.
Why Albanese Labor now requires a confidentiality agreement to be signed before they meet private sector people, regardless of the subject.
Consider the go slow and almost stopped AUKUS partnership projects, cancelled or cut back ADF orders.
And the reversal of standing up to China policy.
Scary!
Multiculturalism or tribalism is an example of out of control immigration and flawed selection processing, consider the street demonstrations against our friends and allies Israel and supporters of Palestine Hamas Terrorist Organisation. Consider shopping centres in Western Sydney where shop window displays of Palestinian Flag and other support propaganda is widely displayed. Consider the Islamic leaders hate speeches condemning even Jewish Australians, and the urban terrorism they are now subjected to by fellow Australians obviously not tolerant of others.
And then consider the burden of over loaded government services and infrastructure, the additional costs for State taxpayers and governments trying to catch up with Federal Immigration intake.
Much more to consider, but think about the per capita recession underway and migrant intake masking the recession we had (again under Labor) to have.