China, India, Japan are nearly all native-born, with low rates of in-migration and population growth. Modi India, ask Arundhati Roy, can scarcely avoid sectarian violence. There's some in Australia's history, but we didn't have to import this ghastly escalation.
Like, a non-allegiant Indian student-migrant can visa on for 27 years, whilst adding a dangerous son with ASIO form – then an NSW arsenal-ticket – then Philippines militancy-training. Talk about having a lend.
Even under Biden, US population growth never quite topped 1%, now it's crashed. In the EU it's rather less than 0.5%. US, if not California, has ditched net-zero. UK, Canada, NZ, have sharply reversed mass-migration. Isolating Albo, whose radical immigration adds rather more than 1% annually to our population, dwarfing local increase.
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The Albo Triennium averaged 424,000 net-migration annual, thrashing Kevin Rudd's 270,000. But immigration's down 40%, fib Tony Burke and Abul Rizvi. Still tracking over 300,000, adjudges same Rizvi. That's a huge uptick, 3-4x the 1945-2005 average.
Rather than Denmark, Germany's the European case-study for us to heed. Here's an industrial powerhouse, with ideological overreaches on immigration and Greens energy policies. Shuttering nuclear and coal-fired energy, their energy-transition was jolted by Ukraine war stifling Russian gas-supplies.
While no advanced nation matches Australia's reckless 45% population growth since 2000, Germany (also UK) still has headlong renewables/emissions targets like ours.
Love those renewables, but penetration past 40% appears to associate with higher not lower electricity prices. As the Asian coal-powers pay lip-service to net-zero, Australia attempts radical renewables-transition and emissions-reduction. In Treasury cult, our deindustrialised nation can leapfrog to "energy superpower" in "post carbon" world.
Here's Australia's chief Energy Market Operator, recommending the "least cost" pathway to 2050, that of renewables "firmed with storage, backed up by gas and connected with upgraded networks". But he also indicates doubling our energy consumption, tripling grid capacity, and expanding wind/solar/storage fivefold.
The driest continent's energy plan seems to mirror the population plan. It's Treasury rules – unsustainable expansion, saddling voters with lavish coststo Budget, high environmental impacts, and collapsing productivity.
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The "left" demands Liberals accept Labor mandate and follow climate "science". But net-zero isn't science and wasn't even contested at the 2025 election. Support for it is broad but shallow, seems voters would sooner have affordable energy.
Australia's selfish politicians mock the social contract
US sociologist Musa al-Gharbi toured here this year. Reminding us how the US (other nations) top 20% is more in it for themselves (and top 1%) than for altruism and equality.
Here, our "fair go" extends to Minister Anika Wells doing Marie Antoinette, other Labor Ministers doing ABC-TV, to make sport of struggling voters.
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