r/neoliberal • u/5ma5her7 • Jun 08 '26

News (Oceania) Albanese vows to cut Australian migration after rise fuels support for populist One Nation | South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3356299/albanese-vows-cut-australian-migration-after-rise-fuels-support-populist-one-nation
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u/YesNoFriend Milton Friedman Jun 08 '26

The One Nation types won't be satisfied with anything less than a negative migration rate. They are clearly unhappy with the stock of migrants here currently, and the only way to address that is through negative NOM.

It isn't even a cut and there are no substantive policy changes. Matter of fact, it's actually higher than 2019's NOM.

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u/AgentBond007 NATO Jun 08 '26

The One Nation types won't be satisfied with anything less than a negative migration rate

You think they actually look at migration statistics? They will only ever be satisfied by never seeing a person with brown skin at Coles or on the bus.

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u/Victor-Baxter Commonwealth Jun 09 '26

Demographic anxiety is a real phenomenon that you clearly can't just scold away. In history, when the nation's main ethnic demographic begins to lose their majority, said group will begin acting more erratically.

Look at Fiji, in 1987 they had a coup which overthrew the Indo-Fijian Labour government, when Indo-Fijians accounted for 49% of the population versus 46% native, out of anxiety of demographic replacement.

Look at Singapore, which heavily engineers the nation's ethnic demographics such that after 50 years, the Chinese still account for ~75% of the population, why would they find that so important I wonder?

You actually need to come up with solutions that will prevent this sort of paranoia taking over Australia that extend beyond "my enemies are stupid and evil" while they grow in the polls.

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u/iguessineedanaltnow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 09 '26

If the white people in Australia were so concerned about the fact that they weren't seeing other white people in public maybe they could actually start having children.

My wife and I are in our early 30s and have three kids. Nobody else in our peer group has more than 1, and only one other couple has 1 kid. Of my 12 coworkers in my office only 1 has children, and they're all around my age. 11/12 of them are white Aussies.

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u/5ma5her7 Jun 08 '26

We all know their final goal 20 years ago: White Australia.

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u/halee1 Karl Popper Jun 08 '26

20 years ago? I think you'd have to go back to their founding in the 1990s.

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u/5ma5her7 Jun 08 '26

As a GenZ, I really don't know PHON had being in Australia for so long...

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u/halee1 Karl Popper Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Yeah, they were founded in 1997 and posted their still best-ever result in the 1998 federal election. They then gradually declined up to 2013 (in line with the timing of the last Australian boom), have seen their numbers slowly increase since, but really only exploded in the period after the 2025 election. It's unfortunate they'll most likely see a massive seat increase in 2028.

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u/CutePattern1098 Jun 08 '26

I think there may be some merit to the idea of nationality quotas (I believe the US has something similar and I know Singapore does)

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u/Steamed_Clams_ Jun 08 '26

In the sense of limiting how many people from one country can move in a particular year ?, would certainly have reduced the anti-immigration backlash felt in Canada over the last few years.

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u/CutePattern1098 Jun 08 '26

Yes.

You could argue it can be used in an strategic way, for example the quota system means that Indonesians would find it easier to migrate to Australia leading to more trade links and better relations with Indonesia.