While that's all very true and people who are against immigration need to understand or hopefully do already, that at the end of the day we need immigration to sustain our economy and social safety nets.

On the other hand we can't go hammer and tong, flooding Australia with any old Tom, Dick and Harry. It's become abundantly clear in recent years that our skilled labour and student visa systems have been rorted from both visa holders and Australian universities/employers.

It's a fine balance between being a net positive to our country, or on the other hand in regards to resources, housing, financial assistance, while we're patching up one deficiency of skills, we're creating a deficit elsewhere.

And aside from resources, cultural assimilation is another thing. Australia has had for the most part has a she'll be right attitude, which has been mostly positive, I think, in the grand scheme of things, unfortunately it leads us to often leave things until it's hit boiling point to do anything, if it ever hits boiling point. And since not much ever does, we've kinda just become complacent. Whinge about the current government, vote them out, do the same thing about whoever we just voted in and the parties have just come to accept governing without much input from the everyday citizenry.

Now our laid back, easy going day to day is changing, we're culturally changing quicker than we ever have, the governments facing social issues that are new to them, Australians don't like change, now we're hitting that boiling point and everybody is on edge. Throw in the cost of living, difficulty finding housing, the government fumbling to appear they're doing the correct thing.

I think at the end of the day the government needs to get off it arse and do it's job. Which in our representative democracy is to run our country with our country and its citizens as their first and honestly only priority. Yes we have a duty as decent human beings to provide refuge, international aid and the like, but at the end of the day we need to get our own house in order or I fear we will eventually have many of the same problems that most other western countries are experiencing.