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LABOR'S FAILURE FILES #10 | RECORD IMMIGRATION
- AUSTRALIA IS NOW 32% FOREIGN BORN. NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 8.8 million people living in Australia were born overseas. That is 32% of the entire population. And it has not slowed down. At 30 September 2025 Australia's total population hit 27.7 million, growing by 423,600 people in a single year. Net overseas migration added 311,000 of those people in the year to September 2025 alone. That is roughly the entire population of Canberra. Arriving. Every. Single. Year.
This is not just a number on a page. This is why your rent has gone up. This is why your mortgage is eating half your income. This is why your kids cannot afford to move out, cannot afford to buy, and in some cases cannot afford to rent in the city they grew up in. Too many people arriving too fast into a country that was never built to receive them at this pace. And not one politician from Labor or Liberal has ever stood up and asked whether you were okay with that.
Most Australians are not.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VOTE
At the 2025 federal election 88% of Greens preferences flowed directly to Labor. Teal independent preferences favoured Labor by 67% to 33%. And in case there are misrepresentations in the comments, these are direct AEC results with sources below. A vote for the Greens or teals is, in practice, is a vote that ends up with Labor. So, if you want to actually change the immigration intake, the housing crisis and the cost of living, there is only one party that has been saying so for thirty years. You know what to do on voting day. Vote ON.
THE SCALE OF IT UNDER THE Australian Labor Party
Net overseas migration hit a record 538,000 in 2022 to 2023. Then 429,000. Then 306,000. The government calls that a slowdown. Most people call it still absolutely enormous. There are currently 2.78 million people in Australia on temporary visas and that number has gone up, not down. But sure, nothing to see here.
WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM
The overseas born populations living in Australia right now according to the ABS June 2025 data are:
* India at 971,000
* China at 732,000
* Philippines: 308,000
* Vietnam: 276,000
* South Africa: 201,000
* Nepal: 179,000
* Sri Lanka: 143,000
* Malaysia: 143,000
These countries account for around 4.4 million people. The remaining 4.4 million of the 8.8 million total come from over 180 other countries including Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Germany, Italy, South Korea, England, New Zealand and the USA. The ABS tracks every single one of them.
England born population is stagnant and declining. New Zealand is a Trans-Tasman arrangement that predates this entire debate. Neither is driving the surge.
But the volume is only part of the story. The growth rate is where it gets serious. India has more than doubled in a decade, from 449,000 in 2015 to 971,000 in 2025. Nepal is up 257% over the same period. Southern and Central Asia now accounts for 26% of all arrivals. The biggest single group arriving in 2024 to 2025 was temporary students at 157,000, mostly from South Asia, who then transition to permanent residency. Arrive as a student. Stay forever.
The system is working exactly as designed, just not for you.
HOW ARE THEY GETTING IN
The permanent migration program is capped at around 190,000 a year. Temporary migration sits on top of that and is largely uncapped. In 2022 to 2023 total arrivals hit 739,000 people in a single year. To be clear that is not immigration. That is a renovation of the country's population without asking the people who already live here whether they wanted the renovation.
WHAT HAS IT ACTUALLY DONE TO THE REST OF US
Let us make this personal because the statistics do not quite capture what it feels like to live inside them.
Your rent has gone up. Your mortgage has gone up. Your grocery bill has gone up. Your wages have not kept up with any of it. You are not imagining it and you are not bad with money. The average Australian household now hands over 33% of its income just to keep a roof overhead, up from 26% five years ago. If you have a mortgage, repayments are eating 45% of your pre-tax income. In Adelaide rents rose 50% and house prices rose 85% in three years. Sydney and Melbourne are worse.
Your kid cannot afford to move out. Your adult children cannot buy a home. 122,000 Australians are sleeping rough or in crisis accommodation right now and 169,000 households are sitting on social housing waiting lists wondering when their turn will come.
Meanwhile the economy technically kept growing. GDP went up.
The government pointed at that number and called it a win. What they did not mention is that GDP per capita, which is the number that actually measures whether your life is getting better or worse, went into contraction. The economy got bigger. You got poorer. Those are both true at the same time and that is not an accident.
Here is why. We added the population of Canberra every single year and built almost nothing to house them. 56% of recent migrants landed in Sydney and Melbourne, the two cities already least able to cope. And only 2.8% of recently arrived migrants went to work in construction, which is the one industry that could have helped fix the problem. So we added massive demand, added almost no supply, and then watched rents and prices go through the roof while ordinary Australians were told the issue was negative gearing, or interest rates, or not enough first home buyer grants.
It was not any of those things. It was too many people arriving too fast into a country that was not built to receive them. And when you said so, you were called a racist.
IMMIGRATION SUMMARY
Migration at the right level and the right mix works. Australia has proven that over 80 years. The problem is not immigration. The problem is 538,000 people arriving in a single year into a country that built no new infrastructure to receive them, watched GDP per capita go backwards, and then told the 74% of Australians who wanted the intake reduced that their concerns were not welcome in polite conversation.
You got a bigger economy and a worse life. That is not a success. That is a con.
WHAT AUSTRALIANS ACTUALLY THINK
A December 2023 Monash University survey found 74% of Australian voters wanted lower net migration. A 2025 ABC Vote Compass survey of 340,000 respondents found 49% wanted fewer immigrants and only 16% wanted more. The government heard all of that and kept going anyway. Funny how that works when you have $382 million in donations to answer to instead of voters.
WHAT ONE NATION SAYS
Australia is not against immigration. It was built by it. But there is a difference between a managed intake at a level the country can absorb and what has happened under Labor, which is the fastest demographic transformation in Australia's modern history without a single election fought honestly on whether Australians actually wanted it.
Three quarters of Australians want the intake reduced. One Nation has said so for thirty years. You know what to do.
