Amidst the admittedly very important events of the Orlando shooting and the Brexit, the Australian election is set to take place in 4 days and has gone overlooked on iSteve. This election is of both the House and Senate, so this is as big as it gets. I spent 2-3 hours writing a post to explain everything, but unfortunately the browser died. (!!!)
In a nutshell, my idea is that Australia lacks a “Numbers USA” style website or ratings of individual Australian politicians on the basis of legal immigration, and needs that and a similar election guide by electorate. There is a “Sustainable Population Party” (formerly Stable Population Party) but they only have 4 candidates. There are about 76 seats in the Senate and 150 seats in the House, so something more extensive is really warranted. The beauty of this approach is that politicians are not monolithic on immigration, and similar approaches have been used to considerable success by Numbers USA, the NRA, AIPAC, etc. Apply the filter and let the politicians get the message. This is the best and quickest approach in a country where both major parties want (on average) high levels of immigration, for who knows what reason.
I am not sure whether something of value might be crowdsourced in 2-3 days, but who knows what is possible. If we could get someone on Breitbart onside it would help a lot, if not in the actual help with the guide, at least with the publicity. The largest countries of origin for immigrants to Australia are China, India and then it trails off after that. These are not majority Muslim countries, so whoever helps would need to understand that it is the overall immigration level that is the problem, not just the Muslim issue.
Australia ties Canada in net migration rate, equal first in the Anglosphere in immigration rate. Amongst white countries, only Spain has a higher level of immigration and population. Australia is a valuable ally of the USA and it would be a shame to let it slip out of the Anglosphere through rapid demographic change.
Unlike the USA, Australia’s primary source of immigration has been legal immigration, not illegal immigration. While Australia has been offered a real choice on illegal immigration which to their credit the Liberals were effective in halting, there has been no choice offered on legal immigration by either of the major parties or for that matter, the Greens.
The government media outlet, the ABC, does not even list immigration as a major policy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-13/election-2016-policy-big-issues/7387588
The Australian Labor Party (ALP) in particular does not want to debate immigration.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/federal-election-2016-coalition-labor-back-away-from-health-immigration-debates-20160623-gpqil1.html
In terms of the world, there are few white countries taking in more migrants per capita than Australia. Of white countries above Australia’s population, there is only Spain ahead of Australia (would make a good story as to who they are taking in and why). Australia is next and practically tied with Canada. Australia is first in the Anglosphere of its size or greater.
Country | Net migration per thousand p.a. | population
Luxembourg 17.16 0.5M
Spain 8.31 47M
Norway 7.25 5M
Belgium 5.87 11M
Canada 5.66 35M
Australia 5.65 23M
…
United States 3.86 319M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migration_rate
As I said before, most of the immigration is non-white. Most is from India, China and the Phillipines, with some white refugees from the UK and South Africa.
http://blog.id.com.au/2011/population/australian-demographic-trends/australia-newest-migrants/
https://www.border.gov.au/about/corporate/information/fact-sheets/02key
Really, we should be aiming for an immigration moratorium to at least halt the demographic change. There is no white country producing much in the way of surplus, so there is no real point to keeping the borders open in the hope we get some compatible immigration. Taking in more Euro migrants only robs Peter to pay Paul. The only white countries breeding at above replacement levels are Israel at about TFR of 3 depending on source, and Argentina at 2.3. It’s very sad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_fertility_rate
Unfortunately, history shows there is no real difference between the major parties on immigration. Liberal Howard’s tenure oversaw a doubling of the immigration rate. Liberals have been in power from 9/2013, previously ALP from 12/2007, previously Liberals from 3/1996, previously ALP from 3/1983, previously Liberals from 11/1975.
https://www.border.gov.au/Factsheets/PublishingImages/02key-graph-2008-12.gif.jpg
Even Liberal Cory Bernardi, who has good views on Muslim immigration, is either not particularly strong on the legal immigration question, or it is not overly evident where he stands.
http://www.corybernardi.com/learning_from_british_mistakes_on_islamic_migration
http://www.afr.com/news/politics/cory-bernardi-branded-an-embarrassment-for-refugee-comments-20150907-gjhb4h
So, while I am not overly hopeful of finding that much difference between candidates, perhaps there will be some and where there is some, that is a start. I am not sure whether it has merit but since Numbers USA has merit, it seems relatively likely that an Australian equivalent may also have merit. Whether this can be done in time… not sure. Perhaps difficult at this late stage. I welcome comment.
