Labor has stormed to victory in the federal election and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will lead a majority government following a disastrous night for the Coalition and Peter Dutton.
At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.
I said that because I didn’t. Where the preferences end up flowing is irrelevant. You’re essentially saying that everyone votes for the ALP or LNP which is a ridiculous way of thinking.
What do I want done about immigration? Pause it. Completely. We don’t have enough houses for the people we already have.
No it’s not only immigration.
So what about the current immigration? The ones already here
What does that mean for the medical field, transportation, and cleaning? Immigrants are currently holding together all of these industries.
Is it just immigration from Asia or are we cool with immigration from America and Europe?
Current immigrants? Nothing unless they’re here illegally. Don’t extend any visas. Deport people who are caught overstaying their visa.
What does it mean for those industries? They can hire people that are still here. Those fields aren’t held together by immigrants lol. You’re just eating up the lies about “we need more skilled immigrants!”
No, we’re not cool with immigration from America or Europe. What’s hard to understand about this? Pause all immigration until we can get our shit together with the people we already have. You were trying to do a “Gotcha! You’re racist!” thinking that I only wanted to stop “brown people” from coming here, weren’t you? Sorry to disappoint.
It’s clear that our economy and infrastructure and everything else just can’t handle the amount of people we have. Realistically we need a few million population decrease - at least 5 million - in order to dig ourselves out of this situation. Instead Labor (and the LNP to a slightly lower extent) want to keep importing people so they get more tax and can make it look like the economy is flourishing.
No visa extensions? That’s going to cause economic chaos, dude! Immigrants are a money-maker, removing them is just going to hit our ecnonomy. :(
Yes, they are. If we can’t even conclude that fact then there’s nothing that can convince ya.
It’s not racist to want fewer immigrants from certain countries. Some countries and cultures aren’t entirely compatible.
Labor’s brought in fewer immigrants than the LNP has. And removing five million? That’s insane. How’s that improve the economy?
You’re also implying that I’m pro-immigration, I’m not. We have too many, but that’s because we used immigration to hold up Australia after Covid. Now we’re in a tough spot where we need to remove them, but can’t risk it economically.
We NEED a recession. We NEED deflation. We need to get out entire economy back under control, and the more immigrants we bring in the worse it’s going to get. The solution to the population being too poor to have bulk excess cash to spend isn’t to import more people to bring their money with them, increasing inflation and the cost of living and housing crises.
If we stop importing people the population growth stops so we don’t have to keep importing all these supposed invaluable doctors and cleaners. It could even encourage people here to take up those professions.
I want to stop all immigration now, temporarily, and then when it’s viable bring it back in a more controlled way - and yes, that would include things like how likely people are to actually integrate into our culture and way of life.
Not lately they haven’t. Not since Covid. But again - I’m not saying LNP are the immigration stopping saviours. Like everything else this election cycle, they had a slam dunk and they bricked it in regards to immigration.
Our country can’t sustain this level of population, as we’re seeing. Homelessness, out of control cost of living, out of control house prices, etc etc. We shouldn’t be thinking of the economy first and foremost, that’s what got us here in the first place - the desire to always show a nice GDP growth above all else, even when real wages have gone backwards and everything people need is getting further and further out of reach.
We need a “great reset” of almost everything, including the economy. There’s just no way back from the damage Covid caused and the way the governments fucked it up in the aftermath. Wages across the board need to increase about 40% - for everyone - just to get back to pre-covid affordability for basic cost of living. That’s not happening, inflation is still making prices rise, as is higher energy costs, so people are falling further and further behind.
You’re talking absolute nonsense, dude. There’s no such thing as resetting the economy.
That is what you respond with? You just ignore what I meant by “reset”? Recessions aren’t things? Deflation isn’t a thing?