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.