The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ latest release shows the net overseas migration figure increased by 60.3 per cent on the previous year.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 21^st, 2024 at 11:38am:


our constant harassing her on twitter is at least getting her to say something

Discussion of Pauline's speech:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13220953/Pauline-Hanson-repeats-shockin...

India was Australia's No.1 source of permanent overseas migration in 2023, followed by China, the Philippines, Nepal, the UK, New Zealand, Vietnam, South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Unemployment in February fell back to 3.7 per cent, a big drop from January's two-year high level of 4.1 per cent as 116,500 new jobs were created in one month, new figures released on Thursday showed.

But Senator Hanson repeated her 1996 comments that migrants were going on the dole.

'Immigration must be halted in the short term so that our dole queues are not added to by, in many cases, unskilled migrants not fluent in the English language,' she said.
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Senator Hanson's comments came as a newly appointed Liberal senator called for Australia's immigration level to be slashed until housing supply can keep pace with rapid population growth.

A record 548,800 migrants moved to Australia in the year to September.

They made up 83.2 per cent of Australia's 659,900 new residents, including births minus deaths.

Australia's annual population growth pace of 2.5 per cent is at the highest level since the early 1950s, with the net immigration pace more than double the mining boom level of 244,000 in 2007.

It is also more than five times the 1996 level of 97,444 when Senator Hanson made her controversial maiden speech to the House of Representatives.

Dave Sharma, the former MP for the Sydney seat of Wentworth who has revived his political career as a Liberal senator for New South Wales, says immigration needed to be cut until Australia could supply sufficient housing.

'The shortage of housing is being exacerbated by high immigration, which is fuelling demand for already limited supply,' he said in his maiden speech to the Senate on Wednesday afternoon.

'Until we are able to accelerate the pace of our home building, we need to reduce our immigration intake or else we will simply place further pressure on our housing market.'

                                                                                                                                                                       "Canada is planning to set limits on the number of temporary residents it lets in for the first time in its history.

Immigration minister Marc Miller said on Thursday that the number will be reduced over the next three years, with the first cap to be set in September.

It will apply to international students, as well as foreign workers and asylum claimants.     The minister has previously spoken about revising immigration targets due to an affordability and housing crisis.

In his announcement, Mr Miller said that Canada plans to reduce the number of temporary residents to 5% of the population, down from the current 6.2%.

He added that the move is to ensure "sustainable" growth in the number of temporary residents coming into Canada.

In recent years, Mr Miller said Canada has seen a "sharp increase" of temporary residents admitted to the country.

As of 2024, the minister said there are a total of 2.5 million temporary residents in Canada. This is up from nearly one million in 2021, according to figures by national data collection agency Statistics Canada.

The country relies heavily on temporary foreign workers to fill labour shortages, Mr Miller noted, but said "changes are needed to make the system more efficient".                       Canada has seen a sharp increase in temporary residents coming in each year, and the minister has said in the past that the country has become “addicted” to temporary workers.

The first targets will be set in September.

Canada announced in January a two-year cap on international student visas to ease the pressure on housing, health care and other services at a time of record immigration. Canada grew by about 1 million people last year, reaching a record 40 million, as many Canadians struggle with an increased cost of living, including rents and mortgages.

“We are now in a different economic picture,” Minister of Employment Randy Boissonnault said.

Miller said he’ll convene a meeting of provincial, territorial and federal ministers in May to talk about how the levels should be set.

He has also asked his department to review existing programs that bring in temporary residents so as to better align them with labor needs and weed out abuse in the system."                                                                                                                                                                                                               https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-to-set-first-ever-cap-on-temporary-r...

125,000 migrants entered Australia in one month in January.
That's equivalent to 1.5 million per year.  WTF?

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 24^th, 2024 at 2:01pm:



You voted for those Labor traitors - didn't you?

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 24^th, 2024 at 2:08pm:



You are forgiven because Labor never told you what they were really going to do.

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 24^th, 2024 at 2:12pm:



Then you're not forgiven.

Why didn't you tell us about their mass immigration plans?