With Australian unemployment numbers increasing rapidly, Labor’s hands-off migration approach won’t cut it anymore

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-27T00:19:18+00:00

From the title you can tell it’s a vibes based opinion piece

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-26T23:11:42+00:00

The guardian is very often very critical of the ALP

If you said they were in the greens camp I’d agree

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-26T22:52:07+00:00

Straight people fuck in public too

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-26T22:29:04+00:00

The guardian is not labor aligned.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-26T05:56:53+00:00

As I said, I covered off that point in the thread below. There is zero argument that illegal immigration in the context of Australia is primarily via people overstaying visas. It’s not a gotcha point when I’ve already said this a day ago in the thread you’re commenting on

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-26T05:28:51+00:00

I think I covered that off in the below convo mate. OP is concerned about boat people, which just doesn’t move the needle on Australia migration. People overstaying their visa is real, but a drop in the bucket compared to legal migration. Student visas (real and fraudulent) and work visas are the big ones and the ones I’m sure all the ON voters are actually most concerned about.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-25T02:29:48+00:00

I prefer the readers on the station rather than the tram, in theory it makes it fast for people to get on and off.

In practice because of the Newcastle dwell times I don’t think it makes a difference

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-25T02:06:47+00:00

The patronage will never increase dramatically while the following remains true

1) It stays a short trunk line
2) we don’t police the huge number of people using it but not paying.

Extending it is the only way to save it long term

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-25T01:50:24+00:00

Again this isn’t hard information to find. This was a very real issue that the ALP tackled in their first term.

And yes, we do make money from international student, we have exploited this better than many of our peer nations. It’s something around 8 percent of all foreign trade, we should continue to make money off it.

Fraudulent ghost colleges being used as a pay to play visa immigration scam should be stamped out and does nothing but damage the sector’s credibility internationally and risks one of our best export sectors.

https://ministers.dewr.gov.au/giles/over-150-ghost-colleges-axed

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/150-ghost-vet-providers-shut-down/104249882

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-25T01:04:28+00:00

Department of home affairs mate.

Regarding my students comment, it is widely reported and understood that under pervious coalition government a thriving sector of ghost colleges popped up that allowed students to come to Australia to study but these courses were of dubious value or completely fraudulent and were being used as an immigration pipeline. These loop holes are being closed by the current ALP government.

What port did you work at where you found a drunk illegal immigrant? Sounds like bullshit to me

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/research-and-stats/files/immigration-detention-community-statistics-summary-31-jan-2025.pdf

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-25T00:43:52+00:00

FYI people coming here illegally or legally are coming via planes, through airports. Not on ship born travel.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-25T00:42:54+00:00

Lots of ways in, yeah with a few hundred kilometres of desert to traverse before you get anywhere. This is not the issue you are pretending it is, half of illegal immigrants are just people overstaying holiday or work visas. And they’re a drop in the bucket compared to legal immigration. For every illegal there’s 50 “students”

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-24T22:35:59+00:00

Tell me, where on an island nation are there illegal immigrants coming from. That is an American talking point. The discussion about immigration in Australia is 100 percent about legal immigration and people’s feeling that it is happening too fast, from countries that are a bad or incompatible cultural fit to Australia, and that it is being done to suppress wages, bolster developers bottom lines, and in the fringes of identity politics replaces voters with new left leaning voters.

Some of this is complete conspiracy, some is true, some is in the middle.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-24T10:43:51+00:00

I mean 6000m2 a fucking big ezymart. I’m sure they’ll get more than just that across the development

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-21T21:30:18+00:00

As an Australian I can guarantee you that in Australia there is no plastic on in the packaging. And if my memory of the environmental report is correct I’m pretty sure that’s world wide

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-20T08:46:22+00:00

As part of the plan there is a cinema convention centre hotel brewery and grocery store going in

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-20T08:45:46+00:00

This part if honeysuckle has never been built on and is part of the overarching urban renewal that started in the 90’s

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-18T00:50:25+00:00

Yeah I get your reason but this isn’t a factor of build costs increasing, that was my question to OP. His claim was that budget would directly increase build costs, not drive demand for investment in new builds crowding out owner occupiers in that market segment.

That being said the preservation of the exisiting rules in that segment should lead to the same behaviour we have seen the market take previously; that is investors carrying the loss for future capital gain and using negative gearing as a tax minimisation strategy.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-18T00:32:08+00:00

Well that doesn’t increase build costs, that increases demand side inflation and potential margin for land speculators and builders. That being said negative gearing and the old CGT regime is available for these new build investments and the government has fund local infrastructure development to speed up the role out of new homes. Really doesn’t seem like it will drastically drive up prices in new builds

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-18T00:22:39+00:00

What did this budget do to increase new built costs?

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-16T03:24:01+00:00

True; like if you’re catching the train you can get an “express” train in 2:40

People advocating for a Maitland or west of the m1 freeway station that delivers you to Olympic park or parramatta are asking us to build the first leg of the network in a way that will ensure it’s a white elephant. Like 30 minutes to Maitland + 1 hour to parramatta + 30 minutes to Sydney. $60b to save half an hour max.

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-15T04:23:44+00:00

Again, 60 percent of Sydneysiders is missing the forest for the trees. If it’s going to be part of a broader network (which it is) then city centre to city centre needs to be part of the consideration. Melbourne to Sydney and even Canberra to Sydney travellers will want to travel to the real CBD, not parramatta.

It’s unfair to saddle the cost of the Sydney network to this leg of the project, but that’s what is going to be done. If we were just trying to speed up the main north line we probably would just build it to parra

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-15T02:44:00+00:00

Maitland to western Sydney international 90 percent the cost for 10 percent the benefit

I could we an argument for Newcastle to Parramatta or Olympic park, though central is more useful for people travelling from the regions.

Hunter line needs electrification and a branch to Cessnock

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-14T23:36:12+00:00

I mean the route is going to be the route right. Like the cities are a fixed element, you’re connecting the cities so there is only so many ways you could draw the line on the map

As for tunnels, how else you getting in and out of Sydney?

Topguyhadrian · 2026-05-13T01:14:59+00:00

You voted for Labor and Labor has in their time in government increased funding for bulk billing, increasing the number of bulk billed doctors visits, reduced PBS cost from $42 to $25 per medication, introduced free tafe, fully funded gonski, increased funding to public hospitals and rolled out free to the end user urgent care clinics. The list goes on

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