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The govt has made much of saying we need skilled immigrants to build the houses, but then you see in the media last week more yoga instructors and dog handlers were brought in than building trades people lol, so then we get back to the underlying agenda of the BIG Australia plan where both parties want high immigration so they can say our economy is growing and not fall into recession, i have 4 adult children and none could afford to buy a home on one income like i did, and to be honest when was the last time you drove past a house being built and the workers were Indian or Chinese?, going back a bit our immigration was usually around 140k a year, bumping it to 500k a year is hurting our people and i know for Brisbane the traffic is horrendous with no plan to fix it.
And dont think we let Nazis in these days , but i will check under my bed lol.
Kent Brockman said:
Absolutely mate I agree, and maybe I'm just drinking the KoolAid of the "we need immigration" people without reading the fine print. But at the very least we need to do more as a country to make ourselves less reliant on immigration.
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Bluey said:
The govt has made much of saying we need skilled immigrants to build the houses, but then you see in the media last week more yoga instructors and dog handlers were brought in than building trades people lol, so then we get back to the underlying agenda of the BIG Australia plan where both parties want high immigration so they can say our economy is growing and not fall into recession, i have 4 adult children and none could afford to buy a home on one income like i did, and to be honest when was the last time you drove past a house being built and the workers were Indian or Chinese?, going back a bit our immigration was usually around 140k a year, bumping it to 500k a year is hurting our people and i know for Brisbane the traffic is horrendous with no plan to fix it.
And dont think we let Nazis in these days , but i will check under my bed lol.
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Immigration, refugees, bloody tricky issues. And we know they are tricky issues because they keep popping up again and again. Labor with their supposed soft approach and the LNP with their supposed hard approach haven't solved it.
And we can add to that climate change. And probably a few others.
I try to be neutral and at the end of the day it doesn't matter, because the government politic is skewed towards the conservative because of the influence, and dominance of the Murdoch media.
Without a balanced media, we are cursed with a biased narrative.
 
100% KB,honest journalism is a cornerstone of democracy!
Newscorpse CEO claims it’s journalism.As in dishonest?
Newscorpse joke!
 
Kent Brockman said:
Who or what decides how many people come in to Australia?
I know we do need immigration, but how are the numbers set?
Is it the government, ie politicians to decide, or is it an independent body like the reserve bank?
I know which I'd prefer.
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It’s entirely in the hands of the Commonwealth government. They set the annual targets without a lot of light being shone on the factors behind the targets. It’s only very recently where there‘s been any opposing view, Libs and Labor have been pretty much in lock step until Dutton broke out of the unwritten ‘never discuss’ policy.
Both parties are playing around and window dressing with a little snip here and there pretending that everything is on a good track now.
 

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How sad for Aussie couples, their own government has priced them out of buying a home and having a family with rampant immigration, skill shortage my ass , what yoga teachers and dog trainers?,.
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Sydney in ‘baby recession’ as cost-of-living crisis bites​

The number of births in NSW has seen the biggest fall since the early 1980s as housing affordability and cost-of-living pressures discourage people from having children. There were 92,200 babies born across the state in 2023 – down by 6300 or 6.4 per cent compared with the previous year. That is the biggest percentage decline since 1983, when the economy was recovering from a deep recession. Nationally, 289,100 babies were born last year, down 4.6 per cent compared with 2022.
Worst-affected areas: The fertility rate, which measures the expected number of births per woman, has declined sharply in Sydney. In 2013, the city’s fertility rate was 1.85 births per woman, but by last year it had fallen to a historic low of 1.57. More than 90 per cent of Sydney suburbs now have a fertility rate below the population replacement level of 2.1 births per woman, especially in inner-city suburbs such as Chippendale (0.63), Darlinghurst (0.69) and Newtown (0.84). Suburbs with the most births were in the outer suburbs, where housing is more affordable.
What’s behind it? KPMG urban economist Terry Rawnsley, who wrote the report, says the high cost of housing and additional cost-of-living pressures have affected birth rates. “Sydney is in the midst of a baby recession,” he said. “Birth rates give you an insight into how confident households are feeling about the future. So the recent slump in births is an indicator of how much cost-of-living pressures are affecting households and how much housing availability challenges are feeding into people’s behaviour.”

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Bluey said:
How sad for Aussie couples, their own government has priced them out of buying a home and having a family with rampant immigration, skill shortage my ass , what yoga teachers and dog trainers?,.
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Sydney in ‘baby recession’ as cost-of-living crisis bites​

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The number of births in NSW has seen the biggest fall since the early 1980s as housing affordability and cost-of-living pressures discourage people from having children. There were 92,200 babies born across the state in 2023 – down by 6300 or 6.4 per cent compared with the previous year. That is the biggest percentage decline since 1983, when the economy was recovering from a deep recession. Nationally, 289,100 babies were born last year, down 4.6 per cent compared with 2022.
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Worst-affected areas: The fertility rate, which measures the expected number of births per woman, has declined sharply in Sydney. In 2013, the city’s fertility rate was 1.85 births per woman, but by last year it had fallen to a historic low of 1.57. More than 90 per cent of Sydney suburbs now have a fertility rate below the population replacement level of 2.1 births per woman, especially in inner-city suburbs such as Chippendale (0.63), Darlinghurst (0.69) and Newtown (0.84). Suburbs with the most births were in the outer suburbs, where housing is more affordable.
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What’s behind it? KPMG urban economist Terry Rawnsley, who wrote the report, says the high cost of housing and additional cost-of-living pressures have affected birth rates. “Sydney is in the midst of a baby recession,” he said. “Birth rates give you an insight into how confident households are feeling about the future. So the recent slump in births is an indicator of how much cost-of-living pressures are affecting households and how much housing availability challenges are feeding into people’s behaviour.”
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Young people today are struggling to feed themselves so why would they decide to have children?
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captainsutto said:
most would be struggling cuz they do Uber eats every night or those pre packed meals that cost a fortune, instead of cooking😆😆
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My friend has two daughters that are both nurses and he was telling me today about the shortage of nurses in the hospitals as relayed to him by his daughters, I told him that nurses can't afford to live in Sydney as rents are too high and that the situation has been created by inept politicians that have no foresight.
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southsport said:
My friend has two daughters that are both nurses and he was telling me today about the shortage of nurses in the hospitals as relayed to him by his daughters, I told him that nurses can't afford to live in Sydney as rents are too high and that the situation has been created by inept politicians that have no foresight.
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We fair dinkum need to get a committee of experts on the solution to housing supply.
People without skin in the game, academics (economists, accounts, civil engineers), people who work for charities, things like that.
Then, this is the hard part, whatever they recommend, both parties make it happen. Partisan politics is wrecking the joint.
 
Kent Brockman said:
We fair dinkum need to get a committee of experts on the solution to housing supply.
People without skin in the game, academics (economists, accounts, civil engineers), people who work for charities, things like that.
Then, this is the hard part, whatever they recommend, both parties make it happen. Partisan politics is wrecking the joint.
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My opinion is that housing supply isn't the solution but slashing immigration is.
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southsport said:
My opinion is that housing supply isn't the solution but slashing immigration is.
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I agree that it should be a part of it, but I don't really know. I do know the yoga and dog walker stuff is an absolute carry on. Immigration is a rort at the moment. And even the fact that we have to bring in professionals like doctors from other countries, developing countries, without training our own, is shameful.
 
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