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Despite Bondi, Australia will remain a world-outlier on mass-migration

By Stephen Saunders - posted Tuesday, 30 December 2025


After decades of political-inbreeding, aka party preselection, only a handful of our 227 federal reps openly align with the popular will, for substantially reducing immigration to relieve housing pain (and societal fracture). When Senator Hanson tried once again for a population plebiscite, much milder than Switzerland contemplates, entitled Senators did victory-laps at her (our) expense.

For the duopoly, housing's a "wicked" supply problem. Took many years to develop, takes many more to solve, so sad. Yet NZ and Canada quickly charted improved rental/housing affordability, by not treating immigration as a "wicked" problem. Here too, Victoria has improved affordability, by slashing investment-housing tax-breaks.

With more international-students per capita than anywhere, Albo's sweetheart immigration deals with Modi, Burke's 70 different visa classes, and Home Affairs' studied neglect of visa regulation and policing, Australia tops 300,000 net-migration before you can blink. Gee, if only we had a central government…

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Nannied off social media, Australian teens will need Bank of Mum & Dad, to afford a home, or life mortgage more likely. Dwelling prices are 10x median household incomes in Sydney, 6-7x in other capitals. In 2026, housing looks to become even less affordable.

Our landlord-class MHRs and Senators wouldn't care to bust the racket. Even after Bondi, they re-endorse mass migration.

They're inviting more discord and violence. More voters (politicians) will shift to much-vilified Hanson-Joyce, whose party urgesimmigration-regulation and low-migration.

 

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