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Coming from Mean Albo, immigration 'cuts' have little credibility

By Stephen Saunders - posted Friday, 7 August 2026


By the April 2026 protest in Canberra, attended by Hanson and Joyce, Labor calmed down. They pretty much ignored the event, as did the ANU type counter-protestors.

But Albo himself keeps harping, migration is Who We Are, can't "turn back" the clock.

Actually - we should. The 1945-2005 average of 90,000, if restored, would "only" be about 0.3% of population. By world standards, still high, but no longer off the charts.

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Albo's soft new interview with "assisted" Saturday Paper is typical. Despite Labor pursuing radical open-borders net-zero policies, policies that unstitched the powerful German economy, dear leader is somehow a "steady reformer".

Voters, who mostly disagree with his mass migration, are irksome and Not Who We Are. Albo yearns for a time when mainstream media handed down agreed government-styled "facts" from on high, less disputed by unentitled voters.

Saturday Paper rather overlooks, that Albo Labor itself has taken the economic and immigration lies next level. Across five Budgets, Labor's Treasury has accidentally on purpose way-understated, their true net-migration intentions. That's a historic first.

From 2023 until right now, Home Affairs Ministers O'Neil then Burke keep promising voters "sweeping cuts". Who'd believe them anymore?

For Alboas for Abul Rizvi, "cuts" means pretending to taper to a very-high 225,000 – at some time in the never-never. To do much better you'd have to blitz Home Affairs (immigration)- get the outfit working for the national interest not their Heinz 57visas.

Our comfily bureaucratic immigration-economy has bankrupted Victoria over a dozen years, with debt going off the scale, a bloated public service, the corrupt Big Build. According to Albo however, the big threat to hapless Victorians is Hanson's One Nation.

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As if this cake needed to be iced, come on down chief-influencer aka Albo's Governor-General Sam Mostyn, with her novel Mean Girl attack on Australians. Familiar tropes recur. Bring back agreed "facts", "cohesion" is threatened, "racism" is rising, as are antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Could this unrest at all relate to Labor's weaponisation of mass migration against their own people? Nah, Sam's problem is ignorant Australian adults. They just don't understand democracy do they - unlike inculcated schoolchildren and new migrants.

You can't believe Mean Albo

Big Australia isn't new - nor is lying to voters. But Albo has greatly escalated Big Australia, of itself necessitating bigger lies and greater aggro towards voters.

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Stephen Saunders is a former APS public servant and consultant.

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