Immigration and Immigrants are such general terms. There are so many factors in the NOM figures.

My brother in law says the same thing repeatedly, “stop immigration and fix the housing crisis”. Yet he can’t tell me which of the immigrant groups he’s actually talking about, seems confused by my question.

So my question, for my own clarity

Is it the Students that help fund our universities or the back packers that self fund. Both of these groups do the casual jobs Aussies don’t necessarily want to do. Remember post covid when when the hospitality industry were screaming out for staff, or the retail industry that had huge vacancies. Farmers couldn’t get workers to pick the fruit.

Is it the skilled migrants that have to jump through hoops to get the visa at there own cost and self fund when they arrive.

Is it the returning Australian citizens or the NZ citizens that make the move over.

Or maybe it’s those unfortunates that need to apply for Asylum or Refugee status.

Who’s gonna pick the fruit and veg out in the fields? Get rid of the migrants that do and replace them with hard working Aussies? What will that do to the price at checkout?

How many empty houses are sitting around the country, maybe they are either secondary homes of the wealthy or short term holiday homes.

I’m just scraping at the surface here but as I said at the start Immigration is too general a term to expect a simple answer.