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The political party peddling anti-immigration poison is the same party that promotes deregulation wherever possible. The LNP Coalition, who governed Australia federally for a decade, prior to the Albanese government, let in the same number of immigrants as Labor when you adjust for the Covid bumps to the figures. This right wing beat up over immigration is another misdirected blame game strategy. The actual reasons why so many working Australians are struggling economically and why we have a housing crisis are not because of high immigration. It is a confluence of economic policies, initiated originally by LNP governments.
“Experts say confusion about various migration numbers, and a recent case of inaccurate reporting which spread like wildfire online, have combined to give a false impression of overseas arrivals. The government says Australia’s net overseas migration figure is actually down 37% from a recent peak, countering claims aired by those behind the weekend’s anti-immigration rallies.”
- (The Guardian, 1st Sept 2025)
LNP Blame Game Deflections Downunder
House prices are way too high in Australia. Plus, there is a shortage of housing stock across our cities. Residential property has been an out of control investment juggernaut for many years; and the market has not been the all-powerful solution the neoliberals promised us. Liberal governments have sung the praises of unrestricted market forces for decades and thus we find ourselves in this 2 speed economy mess for the country. Where are the social housing builds over the last 30 years? Oh yeah, the market just wanted expensive housing to flog to yuppies. The market does not take care of things for all Australians – it is complete BS!
Racists Come In All Colours
Racists come in all colours!
“There is open despair inside the Liberal Party about how to rebuild its standing in multicultural communities after its new colleague in the party room Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s inflammatory comments about Indian migrants put the brakes on that already monumental task.”
Riling up the hard right of the party by making racist comments is a tried and true political stratagem. Flagging the blame game by demonising immigrants, refugees and anyone different is too often the conservative way. Questionable people wrapping themselves in the national flag speaks of using patriotism to disguise their exclusionary policies. Australia for the white man is an offensive and outdated conception. Neo-Nazis given a platform to speak at a rally claiming to be a march for Australia is abhorrent. Stop blaming others for your own short comings’ folks. The political party peddling anti-immigration poison is the same party that looks after the billionaires and oligarchs.
Politics Has Poisoned The Economic Well For Many Australians
Australia is an economically unfair place to live in 2025 but that has little to do with immigration. It is because of governments favouring the wealthy and powerful with tax breaks over decades. Taxing workers and not wealth has created growing inequity across Australia. The ACCC has not protected competition in the marketplace. This massive failure has seen mergers and takeovers galore. The end result are duopolies and oligopolies in every sector and no real competition. This has resulted in the demise of consumer power and the companies’ setting prices. Profit gouging has emerged as a real factor; and shareholders ruling the roost to the detriment of both employees and consumers within the Australian economy follows the US lead on this. The political class have watched on whilst multinationals have avoided paying their fair share of tax over decades. Mining companies not even paying royalties and getting overly generous tax breaks. The scent of corruption hangs over resource ministers at both state and federal levels. The revolving door sees these politicians and bureaucrats moving onto high paid jobs at these same companies post-politics and civil service. Donations to political parties of both persuasions by these corporations ensures their cozy treatment.
Tax Avoidance In Australia By The Wealthy
It is time that ordinary Australians started looking under the bonnet of the Australian economy to see what is really going and has been for decades. A coterie of special friends has seen these people grow exceedingly rich whilst the rest of us have been shafted. Economic opportunity has been moved out of reach for many of us, as the business realm gets tied up by ever larger corporations. Governments are supposed to foster economic opportunity for their citizens, all of them, and not just a select few. Pricing everybody out of the market is not the kind of Australia that many of us want to live in. Especially when it is American multinationals sucking the wealth out of the place and avoiding paying their fair share of tax to boot. Google (Alphabet), Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, News Corp, Apple, and the like all pay little to no tax on their earnings downunder. They shift profits on their balance sheets to avoid paying tax in Australia on billions of dollars of earnings each. It is a shell game, and we are the schmucks. You do not hear the loud voices attacking immigrants directing their ire at the real culprits. Why? Because they are too gutless and prefer to pick on vulnerable soft targets instead. The conservatives always vote with the big end of town because they are their creatures. Their divisive schtick makes it easier for the powerful to go on stealing the lunches of ordinary Australians. If the little people are squabbling among themselves. Right wing parties play this game for a reason – it has worked consistently well forever. The political party peddling anti-immigration poison is the same party that protects the rich and powerful.
“Have you noticed that we have all become economists over the last 30 odd years? That economic-speak has become the lingua-franca of our modern world? We talk about the supply and demand of things, the dollar value of everything, and make all our decisions based upon economic principles to a large degree. This has not always been so. Prior to the American conversion to all things economic, which began with the Rand Corporation in the 1960s, governments and ordinary people did not bang on about economics. Economics is founded upon certain assumptions about individual behaviours driven by self-interest. Indeed, economics is anti-community.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of The Stoic Golfer; Money Matters and America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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