I’ve written twice already about the Libertarian Party and it’s proposed immigration policy, which you can read both here and here.
I’ve also written about their support for “colour blind meritocracy” and what they think an Australian is here.
Their official immigration policy was released on Australia Day and it didn’t fail to underwhelm.
As I said in my previous articles, Australians are politically homeless and the Libertarian Party were hoping to capitalise on said disenfranchisement by marketing themselves as the solution.
Immigration is the election issue. Looking at this release, it confirms to me they definitely aren’t the solution.
I won’t go into too much depth, but I’ll try to address the main points. Here’s the overview:
Libertarian Party’s new immigration policy will “roll back the quota system in favour of market-based solutions”
Here’s the rest: https://t.co/NrB5MIIHXB pic.twitter.com/vdYnbWFV6T
— Jordan H Knight (@jhk_______) January 26, 2025
First of all, “the free market” has run our border for about 30 years and this is exactly why you have nearly 400 jobs on the “Skilled” Occupation List, and why the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Thresholds has been insanely low.
The Business Council of Australia has a whine in the AFR and suddenly you have an Adelaide’s worth of Indians being imported every two years. Every time there’s a Productivity Commission review into how bad the program is, there’s an even louder chorus of whining from our unproductive ASX100 and the gates remain wide open.
I read this as the Libertarian Party basically wanting less oversight and trying to privatise the visa system, as Scott Morrison unsuccessfully did back in 2019.
The migration fee is basically just an insanely high visa application charge, but furthermore it’s just charging access to the economic zone known as Australia – it’s Costco Nationalism, aka pay-to-play.
Doesn’t matter where you’re from, as long you can pay the entry fee you can do what you want. This is also going to result in more loan-sharking from third world countries, which already has a massive problem of loans to people for access to Australia so they can come and work as indentured slaves.
Furthermore, how do you become a citizen in ten years if your temporary visa is only 5 years? Extending citizenship to ten years isn’t bad, but it’s still delaying the same outcome. It also seems the student visa scam is allowed to continue unabated, which is arguably the biggest problem at the moment. Nothing on how to fix it except limit the time you’re able to pretend to study commercial cookery to five years, while sending billions in untaxed remittances offshore.
A “basic” citizenship test? It’s already an incredibly basic test and migrants are allowed infinite attempts at memorising answers. There is still no mandatory English requirement at citizenship stage either which is an unconscionable farce.
An amnesty? I don’t have official statistics at hand and correct me if I’m wrong, but I would hazard a guess that there must be at least a million or more people on permanent residency currently (which you can get after only two years). So, instead of cutting this pipeline off before it becomes a further problem, they’ve just thrown their hands up and decided it’s too hard and they get to be welfare leeches forever.
The term amnesty should never be uttered in any immigration matter. It leads to long-term demographic disaster – just look at what Ronald Reagan did in 1986.
In fact, we had our own soft version with the CD-851 Resolution of Status Visas that were handed out by Andrew Giles last year to 20,000 that turned up on boats uninvited, instead of just being booted out. The demographic problems from this group are already established.
Victorian Senate Candidate Jordan Ditloff proffered his view on X:
HOW WOULD THE LIBERTARIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY WORK IN PRACTICE?
Summary: Under the migration fee policy proposed by the Libertarian Party, there are two possible ways the migration fee could be implemented – the government setting the migration fee, or the government setting the… pic.twitter.com/cRYVibY0hI
— Jordan Dittloff (@Dittloff4Senate) January 27, 2025
A lot of waffle which I’ve mostly addressed, but note the repeated use of “auction” – migration to a libertarian is just an economic commodity they want to trade.
I sincerely doubt they will pull out of the Refugee Convention and more importantly, the abominable Indian Free Trade Agreement. Even so, under their plan the Afghanis that assaulted a teenage lifeguard are allowed to stay. The Africans running amok across the country are allowed to stay. The Middle Eastern crime gangs torching Melbourne over tobacco and shooting up Sydney are allowed to continue doing what they’re doing, and so on.
These diasporas have to go back, citizens or not.
I’ve never heard an actual legitimate explanation for this weak argument of “we need to go back to 50-60,000 a year NOM”, other than “it’s the long-term historical average”.
So what?
We’re at 27 million people already and everything is falling apart. Multiple studies have shown that environmentally speaking, 20 million was the sustainable maximum for a country with limited, habitable land mass that is essentially a thin coastal strip on the east coast, a small island in the south and a small pocket in the south-west.
There’s also never any commitment from any of these parties as to how big they want the country to be.
What’s the terminal population they want? 30 million? 50? We know Triguboff wants 100 million and Ruddick wants ghetto towers all over Sydney. There’s also nothing about race or which countries should be banned from the program, even Labor’s recently passed deportation laws allow for that. The Libertarians support multiculturalism by another name aka “colour blind meritocracy” and Ditloff himself has made comments to that effect, so no surprises there.
Endless posts are circulating on X about how good Australia was at 18-20 million. There’s nothing stopping us going back there long-term except lack of will.
Further, we could also easily achieve an additional 60,000 population per year through birth rates alone if we closed the borders and allowed actual access to housing and infrastructure. But that would mean Harry Triguboff couldn’t sell his sky ghettos to the Chinese.
The 5-year moratorium previously espoused by Party Leader John Ruddick was either a lie or they backed down on it, which I’m betting is the latter after a call from one of the donors. Realistically, it should be a permanent moratorium or at least 10-15 years as 5 years is nowhere near enough time to sort out the many issues.
I could go on but the too long, didn’t read is that this policy is just more of the same – it’s a fee-for-all for a free-for-all. As I said in my previous articles, there’s nothing about the rorted appeals system, the corrupt migration law industry, dubious high court and federal court decisions or shutting down the colossal student visa scam. Or indeed, foreigners buying Australian real estate.
Not one party in Australia, aside from the fledgling Australian Patriots Party, is willing to do what’s necessary on the border to secure the future of the nation. They’re all afraid of having the ASX100 fund boomer racism slop in the MSM. Imagine still caring about what the ASX100 thinks of anything?
Truth is, we actually don’t need immigration at all and there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a stable, static population that’s productive. The national defence argument also doesn’t cut it in the era of drones and missiles and hardly anyone wants to join the ADF, despite an additional 7 million people imported since 2000.
The short-term cost of mass deporting people versus the long-term cost of retaining these mostly unproductive people in the country makes it a no-brainer, but unfortunately people don’t want to be called the horrible R word by the same people bringing these foreigners in for their economic own self-interest.
I’m personally sick of this ‘pragmatic’ cowardice on immigration because people are trying to avoid conflict – it’s too late for that. You can’t avoid conflict, you can only determine it’s severity if you don’t do anything about it.
Close the border, kick people out and restructure the country’s economy into a productive one – it’s really quite simple, the first part anyway.
Header image credit: Libertarian Party
