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Peter Strachan retweeted
There it is, ladies and gentlemen. The Economist has finally published a graph on migrant crime levels. I’m sure the usual suspects will be absolutely furious to discover that the data has once again refused to cooperate with their preferred narrative.
Peter Strachan retweeted
Australia already has about enough infrastructure for 28m people. We could just pay the costs associated with maintaining & updating that level of infrastructure.
Instead we have to help pay for the infrastructure that is only needed because we have endless mass immigration.
Who knew!
Importing care workers for the aged cohort costs taxpayers and requires additional infrastructure!
Power, water, transport, roads, sewerage, accommodation, healthcare.
GDP measures everything except things that matter for humans, like clean air/water, a healthy ecosystem, and access to places for quiet contemplation.
Peter Strachan retweeted
Bigger populations expose us to greater risk of food scarcity.
Smaller populations are not only healthier,
... but safer!
population.org.au/say_no_big…
youtube.com/watch?v=xWLCnTcy…
Unless the question is how to collapse human civilization, population growth is not the answer.
Peter Strachan retweeted
That mass immigration is good for the economy has become an article of blind faith* among our political/economic class.
*An article of faith (or blind faith) is an unquestioning belief or conviction accepted as true without requiring logical proof, empirical evidence, or critical reasoning. It represents a core tenet that a person holds purely on trust, authority, or tradition.
Clare O’Neill has clearly shown that she is incapable of meeting her own housing targets, so why are Labor still importing 1000 extra residents every day? macrobusiness.com.au/2026/10…
With positive feedback dominating, the human population surged from 1 billion in ~1815 to 8 billion in 2022. This unprecedented eight-fold population ‘boom’ was accompanied by a >100-fold increase in real gross world product, all on a finite, non-growing planet.
substack.com/home/post/p-221…
Peter Strachan retweeted
Japan’s population is declining at an accelerating rate. Japan conducts a census every five years and first saw a drop in population in 2015. By the 2020 census, it had fallen a further 0.7%. The 2025 census showed a 2.5% decline, to 122,972,528 people, 3.2 million fewer than in 2020. And yet, Japan seems to be doing better economically and in terms of providing social services and maintaining social harmony than countries like Canada that use mass immigration to grow their economy. There might be a lesson in there somewhere. nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02…
Interesting to consider how the loss of 10% of its working age men, resulting from its invasion of Ukraine, impacts the Russian economy.
Peter Strachan retweeted
And costs the rest of country. A classic example of privatised profit and socialised costs.
youtube.com/watch?v=Sm6lWJc8…
A booming "industry", apparently!
Peter Strachan retweeted
Vice-Chancellors love it. It helps justify their multi-million dollar salaries.
academicjobs.com/en-au/highe…
Peter Strachan retweeted
inner city woke lefty’s are at a weird position currently where they like their low/mid density neighbourhood in Newtown ect and don’t want high rise and new development to support our rapidly increasing immigration rates….but they also don’t want to reduce immigration.
They’re going to have to pick their poison at some stage
Amazing how NIMBYs are never against more housing... they just want it somewhere else
smh.com.au/national/nsw/a-sy…
Peter Strachan retweeted
Yes,… good work David.
All those issues have the support the the majority of Australian voters.
Real democracy would acknowledge this.
Same goes for the majority wanting much lower immigration.
Another thing All Australian Governments have ignored for decades.
