The risks of high migration! A growing population threatens our quality of life. Policy magazine,Vol. 26,No. 1,Autumn 2010,by Bob Birrell,Reader in Sociology at Monash University and co-editor of People and Place. He has advised several governments on migration policy.
Australian governments of both Left and Liberal Capitalists promote mass immigration when,as the Productivity Commission has established (Australian government,Economic Impacts of Migration and population Growth Productivity Commission Report,April,2006) XXXII-XXXIII “existing residents have little if anything to gain from high migration. In an economy increasingly dependent on the export of non-renewable resources,rapid population expansion dilutes the benefit from the eroding bounty that can accrue to existing residents”.
The question to be answered is why do our parties of the Socialist Left and Liberal Capitalists both promote mass immigration?
The answer is that they came to this conclusion by different and similar routes. Both parties espouse the non-industrial society and the removal of industry to China and the Third World. The Lima Agreement and the international movement of capital from areas of high wages to that of low wages.
Our graduates of all schools want the liberty to live in any part of the World that they fancy. They lack any feeling for country or race and do not understand the value of freedom and democracy that we,their elders,gave so much blood to preserve for them.
The Liberals are the party of the big end of town,but then so is Labor who has the added advantage of support from the ethnic community. Poor immigrants from all countries vote Labor.
At first our governments attempted to promote the sale of high value added goods and services into the booming Asian region,but this failed because we could not protect our factories from a flood of cheap Asian goods,by quotas and duties,(globalism) and we cannot hope to compete without protecting our technology from export to Asia.
How can we give our workers a reasonable return for their labour,when whole factories with their European technology are exported with our capital to places where wages are 100th of our own.
Our population wants cheap goods and food and at the same time we demand high and ever increasing wages. This is impossible. We must compromise on wages and protect our technology and impose quotas against imports.
The answer to this problem by our Labor and Capitalist parties is aggregate economic growth “the leaders of this campaign (including banks,builders and property magnates) wanted more customers and more dynamic urban growth –which would give an impetus to ‘city building’. This term encompasses the full range of development,;housing,shopping malls,offices and associated infrastructure. State governments (with the exception of the NSW Carr government) supported this advocacy.”
The fuel for this ‘industry’is mass migration and who benefits besides the above bosses? It’s a jackpot for the building trades according to The Advertiser,10.7.10,Career One. Carpenters,painters and bricklayers are among the state’s cashed up trades,these trades-people can enjoy salaries that exceed 80,000 dollars.
The South Australian state government supports this industry,its draft Ministerial Development Plan Amendment (DPA) proposes an extra 25,000 residents and at least 7,000 new homes for Mount Barker,a small town some distance from Adelaide. The Mount Barker Council has unanimously rejected this plan. It is the Councils view that such massive and rapid growth will put enormouse pressure of health,education,public transport,waste water and road work.
The Labor government of S.A. does not care,it is asking the Federal government for more migrants,but in what industry will they be employed?
