November 2025 marks a grim milestone for the once, but no more, Lucky Country: Australia's net permanent and long-term migrant arrivals have shattered records, with 415,760 souls flooding in during the first nine months alone, a six percent leap over last year's already absurd peak. That's 468,390 over the trailing twelve months, the highest ever tallied, capping off a September spike of 35,890 that ranks second only to the fever-dream chaos of 2023. The Institute of Public Affairs lays it bare: This isn't recovery from COVID border lockdowns; it's a deliberate deluge, the "Big Australia" policy in overdrive, where post-pandemic rebounds have morphed into a replacement-level population boom that's eclipsing natural births. Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild nails the indictment: Out-of-control inflows aren't the migrants' fault, they're Canberra's Frankenstein, a federal fiasco that's torching productivity, inflating costs, and begging the question of community consent. Is it any shock that Aussies are slamming the brakes, demanding a halt until housing, roads, and hospitals catch their breath? This isn't sustainable growth; it's a sprint toward societal snap, and the elites pulling the levers know it full well, they're betting on collapse, leaving behind a scorched husk of what was once the world's envy. Then they jump ship, to destroy the next country, and finally the planet, pinning their longer-term agenda on colonising Mars, which they in turn destroy.
The numbers don't whisper; they scream unsustainability. Australia's population, already ballooning by 2.5 percent annually, the fastest in the developed world, now hinges more on visas than cribs, with net overseas migration (NOM) projected to top 335,000 for the year despite government vows to cap it at 260,000 by mid-2026. That's after a 2023-24 binge of 510,000, double the pre-COVID norm, turning Sydney and Melbourne into sardine cans where average home prices flirt with a million plus bucks and rents devour half a pay.
The housing shortfall? A yawning chasm: The feds pledged 1.2 million new roofs by 2029, but the Urban Development Institute forecasts a 400,000-unit flop, thanks to red tape, NIMBY councils, and a construction sector gasping for skilled trades amid labour shortages that migration was supposed to plug, not exacerbate. Rents have surged 10 to 20 percent in migrant-heavy metros, per the Federation for American Immigration Reform's parallel audits, while vacancy rates hover at a miserly one percent, worse than Manhattan's rat race. Young Aussies, saddled with student debt and gig-economy scraps, stare at starter homes priced nine times median income, up from three in the '70s, delaying families and fuelling a fertility freefall to 1.6 births per woman, and falling. It's not just roofs: Roads buckle under extra wheels, with congestion costing $20 billion yearly; hospitals triage longer waits as ERs overflow; schools cram 40 kids per class, short 5,000 teachers in New South Wales alone. The IPA's Wild is spot-on, this "new norm" of elevated arrivals is cannibalising per capita GDP, dragging it negative for quarters on end, as infrastructure lags like a V8 in neutral. Economists quibble, international students bunk in dorms, not McMansions, per the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, but the aggregate crush is undeniable: Every unbuilt home is a policy failure, every strained suburb a symptom of a system too brittle to bend.
Blame the migrants? Wild demurs, and he's right, they're chasing the dream Canberra peddles, from skilled visas to student pipelines, pursuing self-interest, and why not? The rot festers in Parliament House, where the Albanese government's "sustainable migration" rhetoric rings hollow as a didgeridoo in a dust storm. Post-2022 reopenings were meant to reboot the economy, not redline it; instead, NOM exploded to 535,000 that year, a rebound on steroids that ignored the backlog of builds frozen by lockdowns. The Coalition's election pitch, slash intakes, ban foreign buys, got drowned in Labor's counter: More migrants mean more revenue, more workers, even if it means higher taxes later to paper over the gaps. But here's the elite calculus: They know the maths doesn't add up. Grattan Instituteadmit migration juices GDP but torches affordability; Treasury's Centre for Population flags these early indicators as harbingers of future floods. Yet the push persists, a technocratic gamble where short-term stats dazzle, visa fees fund budgets, foreign students prop unis, while long-term liabilities fester. Why? Power. A swelling populace dilutes dissent, packs electorates with grateful newcomers who skew urban-Left, and keeps wages flat in a "flexible" labour market that elites applaud from harbourside villas, which the ATO never looks at. It's the globalist gospel: Import consumers to inflate assets, outsource sovereignty to WTO rules, and let the underclass, native and newcomer alike, scramble for scraps. The Guardian's hand-wringing over a "simplistic" blame game misses the forest: Migration isn't the sole villain (zoning and underinvestment share the whip), but it's the accelerant on a bonfire of policy vanities.
The elites aren't blind; they're architects. From Davos boardrooms to Canberra cocktail circuits, the blueprint is clear: Supercharge "Big Australia" to chase endless growth, damn the strain on a continent already parched by drought and denial. They jet between summits preaching "diversity is strength" while their kids inherit gated enclaves, untouched by the tent cities sprouting in Melbourne's parks or the blackouts from overloaded grids. Wild's plea for consent rings true; polls scream for a pause, with 60 percent of Aussies eyeing migration as the housing culprit, but the machine grinds on, unmoored from the mandate. This isn't oversight; it's overreach, a hubristic hurtle toward tipping points where social cohesion frays, resentment festers, and the natural increase Wild laments becomes a relic. Push too far, and the husk emerges: A burnt-out shell of suburbs ghosted by the young, services rationed like wartime rations, an economy addicted to inflows it can't sustain. The IPA's analysis isn't alarmism; it's autopsy prep for a nation flirting with its own funeral.
Unsustainable? Utterly. The fix demands spine: Cap NOM at less than 100,000, laser-focus on high-skill net contributors, and bulldoze the barriers to 2 million homes by 2030, fines for councils that stall, tax breaks for builders, not bankers. Tie migration to metrics: No green light until vacancies hit five percent and per capita GDP ticks positive. Community consent? Mandate referendums on intake hikes, let the people veto the vanity.
But elites won't yield; their game is growth at any cost, collapse be damned. Be sure that they know full well about public opposition to mass immigration, but raise a middle finger, then a glass of chardonnay. Australia, once a beacon of balanced bounty, risks becoming a cautionary carcass, overpopulated, underbuilt, unliveable; a Third World hellhole like elsewhere in the West. The surge isn't a wave; it's a tsunami, and the elites know the hull's cracking. But that is just Big Business as usual.
March for Australia; support parties such as One nation and the independents e.g. Senator Babet, who have taken a stand on this national genocide/suicide.
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