The Death of Europe foretold, page-7

I can sympathise with those looking to slow or virtually stop immigration to Australia in order to force Government to address the Ponzi scheme economic model we are currently following, but those who are calling for it (for whatever reason) need to be prepared to pay higher taxes and get less for both your hours worked and your investments.

If you're looking to stop immigration because you are scared of becoming a minority in your own country, I have a couple offerings that might evoke a thought bubble:

1) It's probably too late, mate. If you wanted to be able to walk down the street, or into your local hardware store or milkbar or your kid's classroom and be one of the 94% Caucasians in the room and look almost with sympathy and pity at the token Chinese kid and the aboriginal, then you probably should have been born around 1920 so you could perhaps put your arguably xenophobic plans into action when you found your voice in adulthood. Now, the only way you will find that sort of 1974 Nirvana is if our Government directs the Army to machine-gun every Australian citizen to death that doesn't look just, like, you. Stopping The Boats, cancelling all Immigration to Australia, whatevs. The horse has bolted dude. We are a multicultural country, and a very young one at that. If you believe in a God, why don't you pray that when your kids have kids that they aren't treated with the same disdain with which the Majority are currently treating minorities

2) Unfortunately, it's not enough to just stop those you "don't want to come here" from coming here. Last I looked, 7 million Australians were born overseas, and they didn't all emigrate from Lincolnshire and Dorset. Last I looked, we had 1 million Aussies born in England and half a million Kiwis. That is an amazingly strong representation from demographic and cultural groups we typically identify as being 'passable stock to allow to cross our borders'. Ironically, our country only exists because of the rif-raf England hurled over the side and into Australia, and the only source of friction between the recent Heads of State meeting between us and New Zealand was that we are looking to hoik all their bad eggs back across the Tasman. Outside of those choice sources of the Chanel No.5 immigrant, we have 500,000 Chinese and 500,000 Indians. If you are worried about the Chinese and Indian population literally taking over the Planet, please refer to point 1 where you should have been born a long time ago. And, spare a thought please for the rest of the World, for whom the Chinese population makes up ~20% of the population, and yet they've only infiltrated our front lines to the tune of 2%. Even when you account for ethnic background it only rises to 3.5%. Indians a little less in Australia, but still 18% of the World population.

3) The OP singles out Chinese and Indians, I suppose they're a big enough target given the numbers identifying with that ethnicity living in Australia. But what is the problem with them specifically, apart from them having a different coloured skin and, on average, speaking more languages than us? China's official religion I think, is nothing. India's official religion is Hindu (80%). Odd that most of the criticism on the basis of Xenophobia in Australia is aimed at those looking to suffocate Islam in Australia, yet neither China nor India has much of an Islamic population (India 14%). I would have thought that the immigrants from two countries that represent 40% of the World's population and do not bring with them a strong Islamic following would have been money for jam for those who are looking to be particularly picky with who they want coming here and who they don't. Or are those looking to be particularly picky looking to be especially picky?

4) Immigration, and the pick-and-choose idea aside, if given the option of a party platform (of whatever stripe you can stomach) that would instantly reduce immigration and refugee intake from 200,000 per year to 0 would you be prepared, in order to cover the cost of it and get it done, to:

a) increase the retirement age to 80
b) increase all personal and company tax rates progressively by several percent.
c) take a hit to super and investment yields in real terms over the long term.
d) accept inferior locally sourced services in several sectors.
e) accept vastly inflated wages for some isolated parts of the economy.
f) lose diplomatic ties with several notable countries including several in our own region.
g) accept a decline in defence spending, infrastructure spending, health, education, yada yada yada to cover the sudden blockage to our on-tap growth?
h) accept constant near-to-recession growth from here to eternity?
i) more than one of the above (please specify)

…..or take the punt?