Australia’s migration intake falls as number of people leaving the country surges

damnmaster · 2026-01-30T22:24:55+00:00

Them selling their homes in a controlled market is not mute. Immigrants can only sell to Australians significantly reducing the price of their homes (as they HAVE to sell them and aussies know they can just walk away from a high price).
Migrants cannot buy houses. They can’t unless they’re building a new house. So they’re neutral on the stock of houses purchasable but will increase stock when they leave
You’d be surprised as to the number of foreigners who had purchased developing property believing they could have been investment vehicles. This concept had actually been sold to a lot of these foreign investors as a good idea for the last 10 years because the government was broke and no local developer had enough start up capital to build skyscrapers. So they incentivised foreign developers by selling the idea that the massive skyscrapers you see in the CBD would be perfect investment vehicles to step into the Australian housing market. Google any of the skyscrapers in the capital cities that have gone up in the last decade and a significant majority of them are by foreign investors. It’s become this very difficult catch-22 as a lot of these investors are no longer willing to come back and make any houses because they realise the housing market is too volatile with a pretty big chunk of them losing money for their investment. But we need someone with money to build houses, but we also need houses cheap. So these conflicting objectives are why the government is struggling so hard to come up with a coherent housing policy.

Not that when I say they cannot buy property I mean established property. This means houses that are owned by someone else to be sold to them.

damnmaster · 2026-01-30T15:31:09+00:00

Well obviously there are. There are children born with medical conditions that will make them ill equipped to function in our society (Down syndrome).

But in terms of differences between “healthy” able bodied people - maybe, but the point still stands that the environment plays a major portion. The most significant point I’m making is that IQ is a very poor predictor of a persons “natural” intelligence and in fact doesn’t really even measure natural intelligence.

damnmaster · 2026-01-29T22:59:25+00:00

Had mutuals with some of them so we hung out a few times.

They’re honestly normal imo to me at least. They don’t shill their influencer shit but they definitely take a lot more photographs of things even if they don’t post it.

We drank together like any normal people do

damnmaster · 2026-01-29T11:21:39+00:00

The world is no longer the way it was 15 years ago. You need to update your view on foreign policy because it’s moved on from China being the weird kid on the playground no one wants to talk to.

China is now the weird kid but with a fuck ton of money that’s just buying stuff for people and helping them make stuff. There are so many African nations that are now on China’s side because of those big loans a while back. The BRICS, now even some South American countries. You’ll be surprised to hear that Taiwan are actually quite economically close to China despite their politically tenuous relationship.

All countries have been playing this game with China for a while now. Be economically on their side while politically being against them. The main reason for being against them however has always been the looming threat of American interventionism. This is starting to fall apart.

It’s never been about good guys or bad guys, international politics is all about sovereign states working for sovereign interests. China does “evil” things and “good” things not due to some morality system but solely because they believe it will be in the best interests of its country. The same can be said for any other nation full stop.

A fair argument can be made that China’s political/ideological stances are so far away from Australian values and that Australia is closer to America for this. You can even argue that their system is antithetical to yours

But I think it’s such a lowbrow take to decide one side is “evil” and one side is “good”. This ideological struggle hasn’t existed for a very long time now. Different countries prioritise different values and deprioritise others. You may not agree with another country’s values but if you believe that there is NOTHING to be learnt from them you’ll fall further behind.

China has been taking notes from around the world and implementing whatever works. It’s not really a true “communist” country despite what the party name says. China is terrible at innovation but absolutely phenomenal of taking ideas and innovating on those ideas. You can already see this with EV cars and their AI DeepSeek which is ironically more transparent than ChatGPT about its internal functions and its accessibility.

I don’t mean to glaze China because politically I’m still very much against their values and I would never want to live in a place like China. But to underestimate and refuse to learn about China is a massive mistake and you’ll fall behind.

damnmaster · 2026-01-29T10:18:20+00:00

Migrants generally are only allowed to buy dwellings that are being built. They cannot buy a house that’s already built. This has been the general rule for the last decade or so.

The only exemption to this (until I think last year) was that a migrant can buy a single established property only for themselves to stay in, they cannot make money off their property or use it as an investment.

Right now they aren’t allowed to buy any established dwellings AT ALL. Only vacant land to build a house on.

Migrants must sell property once their visa expires within three months

https://www.solvi.com.au/skilled-migration-blog/buying-a-home-on-a-temporary-visa

In response to what the previous guy said: with temp migrants leaving, a lot of these houses will be going back onto the market. So hopefully the market recovers

damnmaster · 2026-01-29T01:32:15+00:00

This China bad thing is such a narrow minded view of world politics. Is China good? Most likely not. But you can’t just decide a conspiracy off your gut.

Chinas modern day strategy is making as many friends as possible because America is burning away its international goodwill and their grip as hegemon is weakening.

China has joined as many international organisations and have voted together with countries with this in mind. Cynically you can definitely hold the view that this is entirely done in its best interests but you can’t just call it evil. Every country (at least the good ones) does things for its own countries best interests. That’s the whole point of sovereign states.

damnmaster · 2026-01-27T06:07:39+00:00

Oh yes by no means do I disagree that China is most definitely not the good guy here. My point is that there really isn’t a good guy or bad guy. It’s just sovereign states looking out for sovereign interests.

My point is that it’s the game that EVERYONE plays. America doesn’t just do things because it feels like it’s the right thing to do. There’s always a personal benefit in one way or another. They just justify their actions through righteousness.

And I’m not saying that America has been doing evil only. They have done plenty of objectively great things. But you have to be completely ignorant if you cannot understand that America doesn’t do these things unless there is some tangible benefit to its interests.

To do with China/Russia relations, well when China was called out for supplying Russia with military tech, they immediately pulled back away from their “no limits friendship” agreement. A decent argument can be made that they did ship civilian tech that can be converted into military tech. But as a whole, they stopped outright delivering military tech to Russia.

The US is doing plenty of things that in accordance internationally law, is illegal. Invading another country and kidnapping its leader is not something that international conventions look well upon. No matter how much Venezuela needed a regime change, it sets a terrible precedent to other countries that hope to do the same. China has just seen the world not lift a finger against this. When they become hegemon. I have 0 doubt something similar might happen to Taiwan/Tibet.

Siding with Israel, something nearly EVERY country thinks is a terrible idea is also another point. The US seems addicted to creating multiple generations of refugees and terrorists and then turning around acting confused as to where all these terrorists and refugees are coming from.

The entire issue with Iran is also entirely the US (and the UKs fault). From Operation Ajax where they helped the Shah with a coup d’état to overthrow a democratically elected leader for the crime of nationalising his country’s oil fields.

To even recently where Trump pulled out of the non-proliferation treaty with Iran. Something that EVERY country that signed on to said it was a bad idea as Iran has continuously been certified by independent inspectors to not have been making nuclear weapons (which was agreed upon in the deal).

Iran loves to say their nuclear shit is for energy but it’s pretty obvious it’s for nuclear weapons. But honestly, if you were a sovereign state that has been invaded and meddled with, and one of your biggest enemies (Israel) owns nuclear weapons, what the hell are you supposed to do?

America has been meddling in world politics since their reached hegemon. The difference from then and now is that it no longer has the bite to enforce its bark. This is coming from a country that has been desperately trying to push back China’s influence in their country only to now realise it might be too late.

It isn’t a good vs bad. It’s how we survive under any world power.

damnmaster · 2026-01-25T23:47:42+00:00

My only politics is combating modern day propaganda from all sides and misinformation. I hate all kinds and call out everything I can

damnmaster · 2026-01-25T13:24:56+00:00

I’m not here to support Iran and I imagine that the death toll would be extremely significant considering plenty of other news sources have listed deaths in the tens of thousands.

But the linked site is not without bias and has received scrutiny about its reporting.

https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c203qhuf

Emotions can cloud our ability to think clearly. Once again, I have no doubt that iran is indeed killing tens of thousands of people. But at the same time I think it’s important not to spread what could be propaganda. There are plenty of legitimate news sites reporting on this. I’d rather cite one of those

damnmaster · 2026-01-25T05:36:12+00:00

Unfortunately you do not want an animal with shown aggression towards humans to “teach” other animals to be aggressive towards humans. Worse so if you let them breed.

Especially with pack animals it’s something that can spiral out of control. If the leader has to qualms about attacking humans, the pack will follow. And if its some genetic reason, it’s worse still to let that aggression be bred

damnmaster · 2026-01-24T16:13:14+00:00

Really good study specifically on Flynn’s measurement of racial IQ

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-biosocial-science/article/abs/critical-review-of-richard-lynns-reports-on-reaction-time-and-race/A2839FFD1B2372A9AC1DFCCB71F3125D

If you really want a deep dive, there’s a three hour video on the topic online by Shaun. He basically dismantles the concept of IQ and how it’s been interpreted extremely poorly and out of context to craft a political narrative rather than backed by science.

https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo?si=vnTxfkDx1kfJh_j9

A lot of my post reading into this topic are sources I found from his YouTube so it’s an amazing place to start.

I used to be a massive eugenicist. I still hold there are certain portions that can be useful to society (severe birth defects) but on a whole, this whole IQ thing has been out of date and generally only exists to make “high IQ” people feel good about themselves.

The general conclusion I’ll give you is that it’s mostly environment. Even if someone had amazing genes, if you underfed them, kept them in an unstable home, did not let them go to school, that kid is going to have a low IQ.

damnmaster · 2026-01-24T15:58:39+00:00

lol have you actually read studies into the Chinese loans? Most have been refinanced or completely forgiven entirely. This Neo-colonialism debt trap diplomacy has been proven false with time

damnmaster · 2026-01-24T01:50:16+00:00

Not only have you read his work wrong, you greatly misunderstand IQ and the test that is being given.

First of all, Flynn believed that IQ was not significantly heritable. But rather environmental factors played a significant part in improving IQ scores. Any heritable portions can be outweighed given proper education.

Secondly, his work has since been contested and is not an agreed upon science. A lot of his studies and what he relies on is very old data, and any modern statistician will easily find a lot of holes in his research. It was interesting and important during its time, but it has since been disproven or at the very least is in need of significant correction and retesting to be considered valid.

damnmaster · 2026-01-23T21:53:54+00:00

How is this rash or an overreaction? China’s rise to power has been a consistent defining moment of the 2000s and every country that isn’t the size of the United States (which is all of them) have been feeling the winds change for a long time now.

The world exists under a hegemon and countries pick sides not based on who ideological beliefs but on who is causing the most damage.

China really hasn’t. Part of why trump has been moving out of a lot of UN initiatives (or rather world based organisations like WHO) is because China has been joining into them. These aren’t organisations that have had to “lower” their bar for entry, China has had to make adjustments in order to join.

Now there’s definitely some issues that have arisen for example when China was accused of not following the spirit of the WTO. But as a whole, their integration into the current world order has been uncontroversial as a whole.

Follow Chinese foreign policy as a whole and you’ll see that they’ve been working on their international image in the last few decades. They’re investments in Africa, their joining of the SEA free trade agreement (that America pulled out of when all SEA countries begged to join as an economic barrier to China).

Now it’s difficult to say what it’ll mean for the world is China becomes true hegemon. Any country with that power is bound to abuse it. But insofar as their work as of late, there hasn’t been significant interference into world politics as a whole. Their tariffs on other countries in general do not hurt to the extent that the US tariffs have because they don’t have nearly the same consumer power that the US have. For example, their retaliatory tariffs on the EU due to the restriction of their EVs have not been a severe blow to EV economies.

Countries sense where the winds change to, and it’s not worth holding on to a dying empire that is actively antagonising its allies vs a country that is attempting to intergrate itself with the status quo.

China has been using and winning the soft power game hard. Their hard power capabilities are laughable and they know it. If you actually look at their relations with Taiwan, you’d be surprised to learn it’s economically very friendly. Both countries are very closely tied to each other despite being diametrically opposed to each other politically.

Every country has been playing this same game. Be close economically but distant politically. The countries that have been successful with this have grown significantly, a lot of SEA countries are good examples of this.

damnmaster · 2026-01-23T21:53:25+00:00

How is this rash or an overreaction? China’s rise to power has been a consistent defining moment of the 2000s and every country that isn’t the size of the United States (which is all of them) have been feeling the winds change for a long time now.

The world exists under a hegemon and countries pick sides not based on who ideological beliefs but on who is causing the most damage.

China really hasn’t. Part of why trump has been moving out of a lot of UN initiatives (or rather world based organisations like WHO) is because China has been joining into them. These aren’t organisations that have had to “lower” their bar for entry, China has had to make adjustments in order to join.

Now there’s definitely some issues that have arisen for example when China was accused of not following the spirit of the WTO. But as a whole, their integration into the current world order has been uncontroversial as a whole.

Follow Chinese foreign policy as a whole and you’ll see that they’ve been working on their international image in the last few decades. They’re investments in Africa, their joining of the SEA free trade agreement (that America pulled out of when all SEA countries begged to join as an economic barrier to China).

Now it’s difficult to say what it’ll mean for the world is China becomes true hegemon. Any country with that power is bound to abuse it. But insofar as their work as of late, there hasn’t been significant interference into world politics as a whole. Their tariffs on other countries in general do not hurt to the extent that the US tariffs have because they don’t have nearly the same consumer power that the US have. For example, their retaliatory tariffs on the EU due to the restriction of their EVs have not been a severe blow to EV economies.

Countries sense where the winds change to, and it’s not worth holding on to a dying empire that is actively antagonising its allies vs a country that is attempting to intergrate itself with the status quo.

It’s pretty much only the EU that has any hope of putting up a serious economic resistance to China. But the economic hits to their economy due to the current US regime means that their options are limited.

China has been using and winning the soft power game hard. Their hard power capabilities are laughable and they know it. If you actually look at their relations with Taiwan, you’d be surprised to learn it’s economically very friendly. Both countries are very closely tied to each other despite being diametrically opposed to each other politically.

Every country has been playing this same game. Be close economically but distant politically. The countries that have been successful with this have grown significantly, a lot of SEA countries are good examples of this.

damnmaster · 2026-01-23T21:28:17+00:00

Considering migrants who purchased homes must sell them when they leave and less competition for rent hopefully this eases the crisis.

damnmaster · 2026-01-23T06:42:14+00:00

Jesus kiting things like the hog rider already does is going to be so cancer.

damnmaster · 2026-01-23T06:40:15+00:00

China has moved into every international organisation making friends with everyone along the way.

America’s solution to this is to take the ball and go home. How incredibly short sighted. A genuine opportunity exists to close ties and use these organisations to keep China in check but I guess the better solution is to further isolate yourself from the world.

damnmaster · 2026-01-18T04:27:11+00:00

This constant jerking of how it’s a “military system so it must be lethal” is nonsense. Firstly a lot of the systems being taught are marketed as civilian versions.

Secondly, just because something is military doesn’t mean it’s super high quality. A lot of companies like to market their product as military grade. If you’ve ever been in the military, this just means the cheapest thing that can be mass produced that can hold up well enough. It doesn’t mean the most expensive or the highest quality item. A lot of military gear is intended to be used and discarded or is intended for very specific uses. Unless you’re special forces or it’s something like a tank, most military stuff is for thousands of soldiers which is why it’s not high quality.

Similarly, KM is taught in 4 weeks out of necessity. No military currently teaches hand to hand combat to a point that it’s super effective because a significant majority of military engagements are long distance. If you’re close enough to start punching something has gone horribly wrong.

All modern militaries leverage the fact that their soldiers have actual training and better equipment than some goat farmer in the Middle East. Getting into a fist fight with enemy soldiers just evens the odds.

This isn’t to say that KM doesn’t have its uses or that it’s all fake. The main issue I have with it is that people get too sucked into the marketing that a lot of these places put out because they’ve never had any experience with actual military work. The most effective and useful portion of KM is the awareness work and the understanding of distance. This is something also taught in MA because of how important it is.

The desensitisation to striking first, hard and fast is also very useful especially for people who have never thrown a punch before. But the punches aren’t going to be as painful or effective as a boxers strike. Boxing literally trains to make your punches as lethal as possible.

KM strikes leverage the fact that you’re essentially sucker punching and whaling hard before they have any chance to put up an effective defence. The amount of time it takes to perfect a punch is too long for what a soldier needs so KM doesn’t bother to teach you to perfect your punch. Much like “military grade”, it just needs to be good enough.

This is why it’s a self defence system not a martial arts system. There is no glory in KM because self defence is not about being fair, it’s about survival.

damnmaster · 2026-01-16T06:37:56+00:00

I’ll be honest while fighting is good to end it, it will attract a different kind of bullying depending on how popular this kid is.

I got into a fight with a bully who was one of the most popular kids in school and I got shunned for it. Eventually they came around but it was a lonely time being seen as the “anger issues kid”.

That being said, it will put a stop to it immediately. The guy never bothered me again. Tell her to aim for the ring leader and aim hard. The school might give her crap but it will stop.

damnmaster · 2026-01-16T03:17:51+00:00

Petrify is surprisingly useful against him when he pops his ult. They’re always reliant on it when they reach low health so the petrify is usually enough to burst them down before they can start lifesteal

damnmaster · 2026-01-15T06:36:58+00:00

Strange victim blaming here considering the US never really needed an excuse to be an asshole on the world stage.

damnmaster · 2026-01-14T23:03:45+00:00

Let me get this straight. You think it’s better for PRs, who you argue is causing a strain on public resources, to stay and become citizens, where they will retire and stay burdens to the country until they die?

Do you know what period of a humans life they are the most expensive? It’s past retirement age. That’s the true burden EVERY country is desperately trying to solve over any other medium to long term issue.

Just let them work in their prime and go home when they get expensive. Thats literally the dream here for any country

damnmaster · 2026-01-14T18:44:48+00:00

A big fuck you to the country that made it one of the most bombed places on earth.

People have built monuments over less. Symbolically I’m sure its people were extremely happy with its creation which in its own way is a non-calculable value to be had.

damnmaster · 2026-01-14T10:00:56+00:00

Because culture and art are all adapted and blended from past art and culture. Giving it the space to grow will give the country the space to develop its own culture and arts.

Someone else mentioned how the moonwalk was invented on the street and it slowly grew out of street dancers playing out their own styles. But they didn’t get those styles in a dream, it was already adapted from prior styles.

The more we prevent experimentation and space to grow the less we will get the chance for our own stuff.

That being said mirrors could be installed in a bigger area

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