Albanese Labor: reshaping the population to its own ends

Even in the 1980s-1990s, Australian voters were concerned immigration was too high.

Before COVID hit in 2020, repeated polls had citizen-voters wanting lower immigration. Now, you find polls like here and here with about two-thirds or more wanting an actual immigration pause, or much lower immigration levels.

How do the elite handle this? Easy - ignore voters. Or sledge them - anything but listen.

The elite have their 101 fibs for why mass migration is necessary and valuable. Their trump card being – voters are too racist.

Since 2019, Liberal then Labor governments have issued a dubious report for the Home Affairs "immigration and citizenship" program. The latest takes "migration nation" as non-negotiable - allegedly it boosts "productivity" and "skills". Shucks, government can't really control net migration, though there's "downward" pressure.

Nonsense. Canada and other nations can control net migration. We too could – we did before COVID. Home Affairs' false justifications would be thrashed by any half-decent performance audit.

Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) has researched this disjunct, between immigration attitudes of the governing classes and governed.

A 2023 TAPRI report found an educated minority (19% of voters sampled) fancied themselves as "guardians" against racism.

These tend to be morally concerned about climate change, and love mass migration, regarding those who disagree as racist. While a 33% share, who largely favoured lower or much lower immigration levels, felt "threatened" in discussing it.

Last November, TAPRI pointed out, the majority of voters oppose the "progressive" agenda of neoliberalism and its cultural template. This April, they reinforce this message.

Sixty percent of voters (sample of December 2024) are rated as "Australia First", with a strong sense of belonging. The rest are labelled "Open Australians" - cosmopolitan, supporting multiculturalism, high immigration, and "progressive" social values. These types concentrate among younger voters and recent migrants.

To my mind, a small governing or "stakeholder" class overrules the legitimate immigration concerns of ordinary voters, including the Australia-Firsts.

By stakeholders I mean like, politicians, public-service mandarins, state and city elites, industry and developers, economists/planners/demographers, mainstream media, university and union execs, think-tanks and lobby groups.

Endless population growth in our heavily resource-based economy misdirects capital, hollowing out productivity growth and living standards. To question this program (the common people) is economically and ecologically rational. Sure, there's a racist element, but Australia consistently rates as one of the least racist and sexist countries.

If we're so scary racist, how come it's so easy for Labor to impose such world-beating rates of immigration?

In adoring this endless population growth, stakeholders and Open Australians can be portrayed as altruistic or compassionate, but also as irrational and selfish.

In return, Albanese Labor disses voters

April 2023, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil aired Labor's arrogant assertion, that mass migration can sync with "Australian values". Nobody asked Australians.

Fronting ABC Laura Tingle and other tame media, O'Neil claimed she was "fixing a broken system" not "about a bigger program". Yeah right. Quick to follow were her: fake Migration Review, fake migration crackdown, fake halving of immigration, then another fake crackdown, fibbing the "biggest" migration drop in "history".

Cruelly for housing and homelessness, O'Neil got shunted across to Housing and Homelessness. By April 2026 she'd conceded, government was only having a lend about those "1.2 million homes". But who doesn't love bold and ambitious targets?

Also in 2023, came Albanese's evasive concession speech over The Voice. He couldn't say directly, you-all are racists. He left that to Tingle, and his Race Commissioners.

Over 2022-23 (538,000) and again in 2023-24 (429,000), Albo scorched Rudd's towering net-migration record of 300,000. Just catching up for COVID and the visa backlog, you understand? Also, net-migration's not a policy target. But also, I've "cut" migration 40%. This contradictory guff is for stakeholder not voter delectation.

What really got Labor on their high horse was the 2025 Marches for Australia. If you believe Wikipedia/ABC and government, far-right racism was the obvious problem, not the housing and living-standards negatives of overwhelming immigration.

Jibed Albanese himself, possibly there were "good people" among "neo nazi" dupes. He gave his ministers free rein, to bucket the protesters as racist and un-Australian.

Then Bondi, late in 2025. A 27-year non-citizen resident plus his son slaughter 15 Jews, unprecedented sectarian massacre at an iconic site. Nothing to do with immigration eh, as Albanese pivoted to gun-control and antisemitism. Added stakeholder Tingle, religion wasn't a factor either.

March 2026, the One Nation surge of the SA election again found Albanese lecturing not listening:

"There are some [who] want to turn back the clock…and we need to call out those people, and we need to continue to cherish our diversity as a strength."

In my crude paraphrase, you-all are still required to have multicultural mass migration, because you're still racist.

From 1945 to 2005, Albo mate, the annual net-migration "clock" usually chimed something like 90,000. Not your half million, "cutting" towards 300,000.

Shadowing Labor, Angus Taylor's Liberal Party wants to police the "Australian values" of immigrants. Angus mate, to preserve values, just slash the intake.

"Australia Marches" again, against Labor mass migration

The Australian Lobby Group protest of April 26 at Parliament House was styled as "Australia Marches". On a perfect autumn day, only a few hundred citizens fronted. Cops and counter-protesters were virtually absent.

But prominent guest speakers were Nationals' Matt Canavan, One Nation's Pauline Hanson, and Bob Katter. ALG promises a national tour in spring.

Said Canavan, immigration "numbers have got to come way down" while net-zero is "another word for socialism…In just four years, they've taken our standards of living back 15 years."

In a movie-length show punctuated with Aussie rock anthems, other speakers included women, indigenous, and self-described mixed-race. Their theme was quit mass migration, shut the gate. ANZAC patriotism and Christianity were frequent reference points. Quipped one speaker, these days it's the politicians think they're gods.

Radical Albanese is reshaping Australia's population

Sorry marchers, mass migration is non-negotiable, on Albanese's watch. As the electoral majority doesn't warm to it yet, he doesn't warm to them.

Permanent mass migration would be a huge win for Albanese. He's not far off. Post COVID, he and the stakeholders have redefined net-migration of well over 200,000 as being "normal" or long-term average.

Again, the average used to be about 90,000. This supposedly-normal 200,000 had never once been inflicted, before John Howard's departing flourish of 2006-07.

Just think. Over 2022-26, Albanese is adding "another Adelaide" via net-migration, roughly 1.6m. With two-thirds heading for Sydney/Melbourne, this is unregulated, mega-city engineering, uncharted societal territory. Melbourne lays on a machete amnesty - Sydney hosts sectarian slaughter – still nobody blinks.

Iran war? Suddenly, vaunted renewable-energy net-zero "superpower" Australia craves relief fuel-shipments, yet doggedly persists with all-time immigration shipments.

More so than ever, Albanese Huge Australia should be the big story. However, by consent among elite stakeholders it's taboo, barely reported and scrutinised.

Alone among world powers and peer nations, Albanese insists voters absorb immigration levels topping 1% of existing population annually. This generates three-quarters of our unnecessary population growth.

Albo's disdainful towards an electorate that quite reasonably queries this program. He'd be happier to have a majority favouring mass migration, like him.

He's getting there perhaps, with another five years as PM very likely. This week's ABS propaganda release advises a post-1901 record, 32% of our "diverse" population born overseas, an extraordinary proportion topped only by Middle East oil-autocracies.

Here, the Coalition must contend with "Kos Samaras theory". Claims this pro-Labor pollster, democracy is hostage to the 50 (of 150 in total) most "diverse" (equals highest levels of migrant-origin) federal electorates. Sez Kos, these big city "ethnic" electorates are nearly all held by Labor, and one cannot win office without (gratifying) them.

Rubbing it in is ANU prof Jill Sheppard. Sniffs she, the elite can't be "listening to the median voter" on immigration, who even wants to know what's "happening in their brain".

Albanese's "Australian values" are a top-down open-borders directive. Habitually decrying as racist, the culture and living concerns of ordinary voters.