As new ABS figures show that Australia has imported an Adelaide’s worth of people in two years because “recession bad”, anger over never-ending immigration is reaching a boiling point.
Peter Dutton has walked back his immigration non-cuts because the developers have obviously got in his ear. On the other side of the uniparty, ALP housing minister Clare O’Neil has basically told Australian youth to give up on ever owning a home on Triple J.
Furthermore, One Nation are currently imploding over their decision to run a Sikh nationalist in Perth calling for more migration, while ignoring its voters who are questioning the decision.
So, what other political options are left?
I managed to get my hands on the Libertarian Party’s long-awaited preliminary immigration policy, with some omissions yet to be added according to LP members in various Twitter spaces.
This was posted on X by Queensland Libertarian senate candidate Lachlan Lade, and I understand this isn’t the final version, so feel free to correct me later on if it’s wrong. I’m only critiquing what I’ve got in front of me and I’m only giving a general overview, not every single point.
So let us begin:
- Points-Based System: Implement a comprehensive points-based immigration system that evaluates applicants based on their skills, education, work experience, and English proficiency
- Priority Occupations: Regularly update a list of priority occupations to address skills shortages in critical sectors such as healthcare, technology, engineering, and education
- Qualification Verification: Ensure thorough verification of qualifications and work experience to maintain high standards
We already have all of this (GK482 visas) and it’s a disaster. All of these safeguards have been watered down through private sector lobbying, especially English requirements and skill assessments. We have obscene levels of qualification fraud, because of the volume and countries we are importing people from and not enough resources to verify it all. There are over 400 jobs on the “Skilled” Occupation List and we could get rid of about 390 of them and be a functioning country – or we could stop importing skills and invest in growing them here for our kids.
Australian Values Test: Introduce a mandatory values test for all prospective immigrants, assessing their understanding and acceptance of Australian values and laws
Cultural Orientation Programs: Require participation in cultural orientation programs that educate newcomers about Australian society, history, and values. A thorough and accurate understanding of Australia and it’s history must be ensured
Language Proficiency: Mandate English language proficiency as a prerequisite for immigration, with exceptions for refugees and humanitarian entrants
How are you going to assess Australian values? Ask them? Right now, it’s literally tick yes or no on the visa application form. Ask ten different people about what “Australian values” are and they will give you ten different answers which is usually some universalist, unenforceable horseshit about fairness etc.
Why are refugees exempt from English requirements? Turn up on a boat/plane and claim your persecuted, you’re exempt from integrating and you can charge the public your daily use of the government’s translating and interpreting service?
One of the main reasons Australia is in such a mess is the lack of an official language and the fact there is no English language requirement test at citizenship stage. This just invites an entire other set of problems and imposes costs on society elsewhere, as we see every day.
We should be withdrawing from the Refugee Convention and sending those who have been granted protection home. Protection visas are just legalised human trafficking of the third world to the first because of erroneous guilt from World War 2.
Entrepreneur and Investor Visas: Encourage high-net-worth individuals and entrepreneurs to invest in Australian businesses and create jobs through specialized visa categories
Absolutely not. This is where the libertarian world view of an economic zone and not a country comes in. These visas (literally the subclass 888 visas) have basically been a Chinese money laundering operation in exchange for permanent residency, with no way to enforce it.
Regional Development: Promote immigration to regional areas by offering incentives and support to immigrants who settle outside major cities
Aka replacement in the regions. We also already have this program (subclass 187 visas) and they’ve basically been rorted as a backdoor way into the country. You can’t make people stay regionally and the regions are already having problems with Islanders and Indians.
Community Engagement: Foster community engagement programs that encourage interaction between immigrants and local communities, promoting mutual understanding and respect
Monitoring and Evaluation: Establish mechanisms for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of immigrants’ integration and contribution to Australian society, ensuring continuous improvement of the immigration system
In other words, status quo multiculturalism and letting parallel societies within Australia continue to be parallel societies within Australia. Also, monitoring these diasporas is very “big government” and we’re doing that already for obvious reasons to not much avail.
They’ve also mentioned an immigration tariff, ie charging an access fee to Australia. Sounds good in principle, but again how are you going to enforce this and the price?
This basically means only wealthy people can migrate to Australia, again relegating Australian citizenship to a Costco membership. This does not surprise me, considering it used to be old LDP Policy to set aside a number of Australian passports for “citizenship auctions”, but I’m unsure if that’s still the case.
Joel Davis made two very good points on this topic, which we are seeing more of through ethnic nepotism every day:
high IQ law abiding asian/indian migrants who have the ability to accumulate substantial wealth and exercise political agency are actually FAR more existentially dangerous to White nations than low IQ violent african/arab migrants
— Joel Davis (@joeldavisx) November 26, 2024
Every conversation I’ve had with an Asian or Indian migrant has been a conversation about either how to make or spend money.
A purely economic mindset, no concept of honour or dignity or drive for freedom. That’s why our rulers are replacing us with them, they’re perfect slaves.— Joel Davis (@joeldavisx) December 11, 2024
Spot on.
In my opinion, their policy as it stands now doesn’t go far enough. It’s just a few minor changes here and there, while avoiding the hard questions. Nothing on race and culture, deportations, criminals, student visas etc. Couple this with their views on free trade and foreign ownership and it’s a recipe for continued disaster.
NSW Libertarian leader John Ruddick has also made clear that he’s a YIMBY and will “approve every development application” in Sydney (high rises for foreigners). That just says to me developers have already captured the party. A proposed 5-year pause is also, quite frankly, rubbish. So, we pause for five years, okay great.
What happens to the 7 million foreigners we’ve imported in the last 20 years particularly all those on temporary visas?
The Section 501 criminals tying up the federal court with spurious appeals?
Migrants using the Love/Thoms High Court decision to falsely claim Aboriginal status and avoid deportation?
The NZYQ cohort?
Indian Free Trade Agreement immigration disaster?
The fake refugees?
The appeals system being rorted since forever?
I didn’t have high expectations, but this isn’t good enough and people don’t really grasp how bad the situation on the border is and how immigration is THE issue. Again, I’m happy to be corrected.
It’s very simple – close the borders and remigrate the others. We can do it, it’s been done many times in history, it’s being done in other countries right now and the only thing stopping it is cowardice.
We don’t have time for half-measures or any milquetoast policy response. That hasn’t worked for 30 years, we’re facing a demographic nightmare and leaving the fight to our dwindling numbers of kids is a cop out and immoral – the boomers’ mistake all over again.
Close the borders and take the hard medicine of remigration or Australia ceases to exist.
It’s that simple.
