Record-breaking immigration for next 3 years

Migrants the ALP isn't game to crow about
May 16, 2008, the Australian:

AUSTRALIA is on the verge of a historical shift in immigration. We are about to enter a period of record-breaking levels in permanent and temporary immigration during the next three years. At the end of the 2007-08 financial year, Australia will have accepted more than 300,000 permanent and temporary migrants in an attempt to meet business demands for skilled workers.

After being Immigration Minister for just a few months, Chris Evans has become responsible for the greatest single expansion of Australia's immigration program, and there is much more to come.

Evans has built suddenly on the years of steady growth under the Howard government and it is certain that the number of temporary workers entering Australia will be well above 100,000 a year, and could be, if present growth rates continue, about 300,000 within three years ...

This expansion and its political and economic treatment is the great untold story of Labor's first budget in more than a decade ...

It's worth noting that Evans's action on TPVs is probably the largest automatic granting of residency in Australia to visa holders since Bob Hawke tearfully granted asylum to thousands of Chinese students after the Tiananmen Square massacre ...

In raw numbers and in percentage terms, that is the largest single increase in a year since at least 1977, and the skilled increase is the largest since the introduction of a managed migration program in 1947.

At the end of the four-year budget outlook it is estimated there will be an extra 150,000 permanent skilled workers in Australia on top of the expected annual intake of about 200,000 a year. That's almost one million new Australians, most skilled and working in the boom states, by 2011 and hundreds of thousands of temporary skilled workers based on demand ...

Meanwhile, on the other side of planet Earth ...

Devastating demolition of the case for mass immigration
Sir Andrew Green, 31st March 2008:

Today's report on immigration from the House of Lords Economic Committee strikes a devastating blow against years of blatant government propaganda. It rejects outright the Government's argument that a high level of immigration is of economic benefit to the UK.

This is exactly what we in Migrationwatch have been saying for at least three years in the teeth of opposition and, indeed, insults from the immigration lobby.

Now, at last, after the first major inquiry of its kind in this country, our view has been endorsed by the considered verdict of one of the most heavyweight committees of Parliament, including, as it does, two former Chancellors, a former Governor of the Bank of England, and several distinguished economists as well as captains of industry and finance ...

And what of the Government's argument that immigration is needed to fill job vacancies? Such claims, the committee judges with admirable restraint, are "analytically weak". Immigration, it continues, is unlikely to be an effective tool for reducing vacancies other than in the short term.

In fact the employment statistics prove the committee's point beyond doubt. It is some five years since the Government started to argue there were 600,000 vacancies that needed to be filled by immigration. In that time, we have had net foreign immigration into Britain of nearly one-and-a-half million and guess how many vacancies we still have - 600,000!

The reason, as the report points out, is that immigrants fill some vacancies but their extra demand for services and goods creates others. The Government's argument on job vacancies would, therefore, lead to a continuous cycle of immigration.

See also:
- Lords' report exposes Labour's lies on the 'benefits' of mass immigration

Via Australian Identity and Oz Conservative

Killed because he did not have a cigarette

April 22, 2008, Daily Telegraph:

EDDIE Spowart was stabbed to death because he didn't smoke and couldn't give a cigarette to a gang of youths who approached him at a train station yesterday.

Horrified friends told The Daily Telegraph that the 54-year-old had been on the phone when the group of African males approached him at Granville Train Station about 12.45am.

They asked him for a cigarette but when the Fijian qualified fitter, who moved to Australian in 1989, told them to go away because he didn't smoke things turned nasty, his long-time friend Tony Chand said.

He was stabbed several times in his thigh, stomach and underneath his shoulder ...

"Eddie would make friends with anybody, he wasn't a violent person. He just append to be in the wrong place at the wrong time - he was asked for a cigarette and was stabbed because he didn't have one."

Mr Spowart had been drinking with mates at a friends place and then a local pub in Granville before the stabbing.

He had walked with a group of friends had walked to the Granville train station to catch a train home to the Westmead home he shared with his sister Elizabeth Spowart ...

Mr Spowart was taken to Westmead Hospital but died several hours after the attack in Memorial Ave ...

Police are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the incident or noticed a group of black African males in the vicinity of Granville Railway Station, Memorial Avenue or near the bus interchange on Mary Street around 12.45am yesterday, to contact Rosehill Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Three more charged over stabbing murder, Apr 23 2008:

Three more people, including two teenagers, have been charged over the stabbing death of a man near a train station in Sydney's west ...

Less than 12 hours after the incident, detectives arrested a 17-year-old Doonside youth and a 16-year-old boy from Wentworthville.

The 17-year-old was charged on Tuesday with attempted murder and murder ...

The younger boy was charged with affray and concealing a serious offence ...

Police on Tuesday arrested two more teenage boys, aged 19 and 17, and a 28-year-old man early Wednesday morning.

All three were charged with affray and concealing a serious offence and were refused bail.

Via Downunder Newslinks

How many (alleged) victims of African immigration will it take? Judging by the UK, Australia better get used to the killings or vote to stop African immigration. Well done to the police for the quick arrests.

China sets sights on Aussie farms

17/5/2008, Australian Protectionists:

Few can argue with the fact that in many ways the ability of a nation to feed itself is a foundation of national sovereignty.

This being the case, it is of concern to read reports that the Agricultural Department of the Communist Chinese Government is in the process of developing a policy to encourage Chinese “investment” in Australian farms in response to reduced land availability and population growth levels that would make a rabbit hang it’s head in shame.

A senior trade official with the Communist regime, Xie Guoli is quoted “Australia and China have a basis for long term agricultural co operation, since Australia is rich in land and China is rich in labour. But developing such a relationship will depend substantially on Australia’s policy on IMPORTING LABOUR”.

Wow, what a trade off! Who could refuse an offer as good as this? A murderous totalitarian Communist regime with proven imperialist policies of suppression and colonisation, offers to come in and buy up your nation’s farms-probably at bargain basement prices, many of which have been held by hard working Australian families for generations-and then dictates that this helpful hand will only be extended provided you allow them to bring in their own people for labour!

What nation of halfwits would allow such a situation?

Perhaps, one with a Mandarin speaking Sinophile for a Prime Minister?

In a world increasingly run by Global Village Idiots, one is to expect an increase in global investment and the movement of capital and resources. We do not like it, but it is expected (along with the myriad of problems that go along with it). However, with China this situation takes on a whole new perspective.

Communist China is already muscling its way into our nation’s mining sector- state funded companies are entering our market and focusing on buying up companies primarily involved in uranium mining. In fact our governments have assured the Chinese that they will endeavour to remove all barriers that restrict their investment in our nation ...

Furthermore, one can only shudder at the effect this move will have on regional Australia. If the Chinese have their way, buy the farms that support local communities and import Chinese labour (obviously not paid Australian wages) the effect will be catastrophic.

The face of regional Australia will change forever, along with the last bastion of the traditional Australian identity. Chinese owned farms, with poorly paid Chinese workers will mean less disposable income flowing on into the nation’s regional towns.

Will the naturally xenophobic Chinese seek to invest in transport companies thereby lowering their cost and increasing their profits further? What of the offspring produced by the thousands of Chinese imported labourers? Bet London to a brick that the K.Rudd government will bend over backwards to give them and the extended families permanent residency to “further cement the close ties with our Chinese friends”.

Remember, this is the same “man” reported as approaching Chinese President Hu Jintao and reminding him that “the ALP has a close relationship with Communist China“.

The same PM who visited China on a company financed trip prior to the last election. Mr.Tang was reportedly referred to by K.Rudd in The Australian (15/3/08) as “my Chinese controller”- Mr.Tang’s company donates extensively to the ALP’s election campaign costs…..

It is becoming increasingly clear that there is a price to pay for such support- and the Australian people are expected by both parties to foot the bill.

Australian Protectionism- it’s a matter of national survival.

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In theory, free trade is a win-win situation as each country specialises in what they are more efficient at producing. Sounds good and it's probably true, after all we've got more spare income after we've furnished our house with cheap Chinese goods. But in practise, when you see all our manufacturing disappearing, you have to wonder where does it end and what do we do when the resource boom ends?

Ditto ownership of farms. Where will it end? Buggered if I know, so I'll vote protectionist until the globalists prove they know what the hell they're doing. The prospect of China buying up farms scares the willies out of me. So anyone, FREAKIN ANYONE, Pauline Hanson included, who wants to run the economy with some degree of protection, they've got my vote.

VOTE 1 AUSTRALIAN PROTECTIONIST PARTY!
It’s a matter of national survival
Their future depends on your vote

Britons fear race violence

17 April 2008, BBC News:

Almost two-thirds of people in Britain fear race relations are so poor tensions are likely to spill over into violence, a BBC poll has suggested.

Of the 1,000 people asked, 60% said the UK had too many immigrants and half wanted foreigners encouraged to leave ...

Equality and Human Rights Commission head Trevor Phillips said the findings were "alarming".

... three out of four people thought there was now a great deal or a fair amount of tension between races and nationalities.

And almost two in three feared tension was certain or likely to lead to violence, although it is not clear whether people are imagining full-blown street riots or minor scuffles.

Mr Phillips told BBC News: "What worries me is if that friction starts to catch fire - if people do genuinely believe it's going to catch fire then we're in trouble.

"This finding may reflect not what is happening today but the story that's been told of the last 40 years - that if you get people of different kinds together then eventually there's going to be trouble."

The survey was commissioned to mark the 40th anniversary of Enoch Powell's infamous "rivers of blood" speech, in which he described the indigenous population's "sense of alarm and resentment" over immigration ...

Asked if they thought immigration meant their local area didn't feel like Britain any more, a quarter of the sample agreed - double the amount who felt this three years ago.

Six out of 10 said immigration had made parts of Britain feel like a foreign country ...

He said: "That is why 2008 sees the biggest shake-up to immigration and border security in 45 years, with a points system like the one in Australia and new rules to make people earn their stay in the UK, including speaking English and abiding by our rules.

"That is what is going to make our immigration system fit for the future."

You stupid Brits, stop worrying, the Aussie point system is gonna solve everything. It's paradise down here, yup, no immigrant troubles at all ...

Via DNL.

'Hidden' migrants drive ethnic change

May 16, 2008, the Australian:

AUSTRALIA is undergoing an unparalleled movement of people and ethnic change through "hidden immigration", but lacks a comprehensive policy to deal with it, according to an eminent demographer.

Monash University professor Andrew Markus said raw immigration numbers masked the magnitude of a demographic revolution that had produced a population where one in four residents was born overseas.

At 24 per cent, the overseas-born proportion of the population is twice that of the US at 12 per cent, and three times that of England and Wales at 8 per cent, where racial tensions have flared again.

"Opinion polls in England in July 2007 and March 2008 indicated that immigration and race issues are the main concern of electors," Professor Markus said.

He said that while Australians had been tolerant and migrants committed to their new home, strong political leadership was required to convince the nation of the benefits to all of high immigration to avoid a backlash ...

"The elements of a policy to promote social cohesion within communities characterised by diversity of language and culture are well known - and difficult to implement," he said. "At present, Australia lacks full clarity of vision, coherence and consistency - while the largest movement of people in the country's history is under way."

Speaking to The Australian yesterday, Professor Markus said that although many Australians regarded the rate of immigration as high, they probably had little idea that the transformation was far bigger than they imagined ...

"With the uneven distribution of the overseas born, this translates to 34.5 per cent of Sydney's population, 31 per cent of Melbourne's, and over 70 per cent in some urban localities," Professor Markus said.

He proposed several measures towards a national policy to make immigration work.

These included challenging disadvantage in education and employment, tackling institutional discrimination, and a "consistent set of policies to be implemented at the community level to promote inter-cultural understanding, bridge building and participation".

Andrew Markus has joined the participation fascists. What ya gonna make us do Andrew?

Separatism looms large. A new federalism sounds good. Get rid of the existing states and create new ones on racial lines ...

Thanks to anonymous commenter.

See also: Permanent migrants on the rise