Daves2017 wrote on Oct 14^th, 2024 at 10:41pm:


Because it's a "first world" country with better prospects for families than low income developing countries, certainly better than 3rd world countries and failed states.   

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Globally, we rank as 'first world' -  much better economically than the 3rd world.

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Not so complex, but mainstream economists make it so.

People prefer to live and raise families in their own country of birth, but the opportunites in 1st world countries are much greater.

Oz benefits because it can steal trained workers for free, instead of paying to educate its own workforce.

Other countries that have reached population limits, eg in the EU, are beginning to resent immigration because the benefits are less than the downsides, hence the 'populist right' AfD in Germany - a very large minority party with c.40% of electoral support, cf Hanson's One Nation in Oz,  which has <10% support.

But Frank and graps are too incompetent to consider the causes of unwanted immigration.

thegreatdivide wrote on Oct 15^th, 2024 at 3:20pm:






https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/14/business/nobel-prize-economics-acemoglu-johns...

Sure, sure, dividie - we'll make all countries economically and socially equal so that trade dies...

FYI - trade and international interaction rely on differences in culture and prosperity... in a way those Arab 'princes' are doing the world a favour by perpetuating gross differences in income - not that on the ground it is getting better here.........

Yes, Bobby - houses are for OWNERS to live in - not as investment vehicles sucking up the available pool of funds required for genuine infrastructure development towards a viable future for this country.

Switzerland sounds good...

Immigration of masses?  Stop it NOW!

Labor's Immigration Crisis: How It's Fueling the Housing and Cost of Living Disaster





Oct 17, 2024

Labor is failing Australians with their reckless economic policies, and it’s the everyday Aussies who are paying the price.

While Albo cries crocodile tears about his past, I’m focused on the future and what I can do to help struggling Australians today.

Families are battling with rising costs and can’t even afford a roof over their heads. Yet Labor is bringing in over a million migrants for a quick economic boost to make their numbers look better.

This isn’t a real solution, it’s just a bandaid to cover up their poor economic management.

We need to cut immigration to net zero, crack down on scam visas, and find those who shouldn’t be here and deport them.

It's time to ban foreign ownership of homes and give hardworking Aussies a fair shot at owning a place of their own.

Enough with the spin and the crocodile tears.

Vote One Nation and together we can fix the housing crisis and ease the cost-of-living burden for all Australians.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 5:35am:


Er...Oz has the most overpriced housing in the world.

Pauline's  policies alone won't reduce Oz housing prices sufficiently,  to ensure  houses are affordable for median wage earners.  Even builders are going broke because of high costs and unaffordable high prices for buyers. 

The government will have to build and own public housing again, like it did before the  Thatcher 'small government' ideology wrecked the economy for average workers.   

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Oct 16^th, 2024 at 10:31am:


You are still repeating the Conservative lie that equality of opportunity means equality of outcome.

Prosperity for all countries doesn't mean all countries are socially and economically equal.

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..and Trump in wealthy America, blaming China, is dead set on 'decoupling' from China to MAGA; at least Oz is prepared to trade iron ore for EVs, though Albo wants to make expensive PVs here instead of importing less expensive (good quality) ones fron China, owing to dysfunctional IMF and WTO arrangements.   

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Note it's  China who is developing (poor) Africa via investment in infrastructure; the West only stole Africa's resources for generations. 

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...provided they can afford to BUY a house....

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A correct statement from you, it's a 'long time between drinks',  though...

Bobby. wrote on Oct 18^th, 2024 at 2:49pm:


And how long will it take, given no more immigration from now, to enable the  supply of the needed 1 million homes at prices the median wage earner can afford, in the private sector market?