The PM didn’t have the common decency to ask those of us who already live here whether we wanted to provide all that would be required for the equivalent of another Adelaide to join us – in just three short years!

PM Albanese didn’t tell us that the net effect of another 1.3m people would be that real estate values across Australia would skyrocket and a house would become out of reach for many.

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Did Labor not realise that in suburbs in WA, Queensland and SA house prices would more than double during that time, simply because of the ancient law of supply and demand?

If they did know, why did they do it? If they didn’t know, what have we got ourselves into?

The average household in Australia has three people. Increase the population by 1.3m and another Adelaide is needed to accommodate them. Simple, isn’t it?

The people of Adelaide use 1000 gigalitres (1000 billion litres = 1 gigalitre) of water every year.

It is not by chance, it was predicable that the influx of another million people – plus the many thousands on temporary visas ­– would test the ability of Australian cities to provide water in the quantities needed.

The population of Perth has grown from about two million in 2022 to more than 2.4m in 2025.

The average Australian uses between 270 and 340 litres of water per day.

The population increase in Perth means that at least another 1.1m litres a day must be provided by the WA Government just for that increase in its migrant population.

Perth derives half of its domestic water from desalination; the rainfall in WA has moved from the NE to the SW during the past 50 years. Perth is increasingly becoming short of water.

The WA Government is building another desalination plant at the cost of $2.8b. WA is desperately short of electricity when it is needed, but that is another story for another day.

Is there anyone in Australia who hasn’t experienced first hand our crumbling and overworked health system?

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From ambulance ramping to the seriously ill being cared for in hospital corridors to having to wait hours in an ED dept, to weeks for a doctor’s appointment; our health system is causing anxiety in epidemic proportions.

Did Labor and Albanese know that another 3500 beds would be needed to properly cater for an increase in population of 1.3m.

If they did know, why have they only provided 1932 for a country with a rapidly ageing population?

Albanese and his cohort of nincompoops took it upon themselves to increase our population without considering the critical services that would be and are now desperately needed to cope with that increase.

Indians from the sub-continent, more than a million of them, now represent the second biggest migrant population in Australia, trailing only the UK.

Indians are now 3.2 per cent of the Australian population.

Last year those million Indians sent about $11b (or $920m a month) back to their families in India.

Remittances from Australia to India more than doubled in the five years from about $5b in 2020 to $11b in 2024.

(In 2024, migrants in Australia sent a record $38.2b in remittances to their countries of origin. India was the biggest followed by China’s $9b.)

These “new Australians’” don’t appear to cheer for Australia. I wonder if they would fight for her if called upon?

Between 2003 and 2023, the Indian born population in Australia doubled from 378,480 to 845,800. Overtaking Chinese-born residents – who went from 432,000 to 644,760.