Immigration Essay, Research Paper

Australians Against Further Immigration

OUR VIEW

Environment

Humanitarianism

Economics

Health

Defences

Education

Culture

Australia’s immigration policy is disastrous, proceeding as if there is no

balance of payment problem, no foreign debt and no geographical or environmental

constraints to population growth. Continued immigration will finally and

irreversibly alter the natural and urban environment, economic viability and

attitudes and culture of our nation.

The people have been consulted on, or given their consent to, the interwoven

policies of immigration and multiculturalism. It is now time for Australians to

demand their democratic rights, reclaim their sovereignty and demand a say in

the future of their nation.

Australians Against Further Immigration want immigration drastically reduced to

zero net. That is, out immigration numbers should merely replace those

permanently leaving Australia each year – historically running between 20,000

and 30,000. At this policy of institutionalised, publicly funded

multiculturalism should be scrapped.

We are a non-racist organisation and attempts to convert the debate to one of

race and emotion is a deliberate ploy to silence critics and avoid the real

issues. We believe in freedom of speech. The philosopher Spinoza said, ?In a

free state every man can think what he wants and say what he thinks?. This

should apply here to debates on immigration.

We care about Australia and want to pass our heritage to our children and their

children. We want to preserve our Australian identity. We stress that migrants

already in Australia are welcome, what we are against is further immigration and

the effect this in now having on social harmony.

Our opposition is the pro-immigration lobby comprised of big business including

the media, the ethnic lobby, churches, misguided humanitarians and both sides of

politics. It is our own successive governments inflicting these policies on us

and they, not the individual migrant, should bear the blame.

We are concerned about the effect of immigration and multiculturalism on this

country where as the pro-immigration lobby is only concerned for the migrant or

their own interests.

ENVIRONMENT

Australia, the world’s oldest and driest continent, with severe soil degradation

and climatic uncertainty – a land of, ?droughts and flooding rains?’ already

faces declining agricultural productivity. Only 10% of our huge land mass is

arable and this land produces less grain than two small states in the USA. The

reality is that we always will be a small food producer by international

standards. Australia has a responsibility to protect its bio-diversity and not

allow its flora and fauna to be pushed form their habits to extinction because

of population or economic pressures. In comparison, the pro-immigration lobby

feel that we have no moral right to this land unless we push development to the

limit. Our population must be stabilised as elsewhere in the world.

The use of water for irrigation, urban demand and sewage disposal, is already

straining supply to the limits. Our main cities have grown beyond their optimum

size. Pollution, traffic, urban sprawl, failing community service, crime and

lower quality of life are occurring. Crowed, sprawling, smog covered cities,

with all of the dysfunctional problems of Los Angles, are the inevitable

consequences of further mass immigration. Yet the government plans to double

the size of our major cities over the next 30 years by immigration. Is this

what Australians, new and old, or of and ethnic group wants?

The Premier of NSW, Bob Carr was right when he said, ?the nation can’t handle

more people….Sydney is bursting at the seams….the debate ought to be about

carrying capacity of the continent – a continent that has lousy soils, fragile

vegetation and depleted and degraded river systems?.

ECONOMICS

To cope with our massive immigration problem which has produced the fastest

population growth in the OECD, we are spending $15 billion per annum. Each year

Australia must build the equivalent of a city the size of Geelong, with all its

infrastructure and social services just to cope with one years immigration

intake. Every migrant in Australia, must be provided with accommodation, food,

transport, a job, schools, pensions, hospitals, water, electricity, roads,

sewerage, universities and all the basic necessities of life. This has been a

major factor in bankrupting Australia and has given us a foreign debt currently

standing at $170 billion with a current account deficit of about $2 billion per

month, half of which is due to immigration. It is no surprise that we have the

highest per capita foreign debit in the world.

Paul Keating was right, when he said in his maiden speech to parliament in 1970,

?It is time we considered the enormous cost of bringing migrants to this country?

.

Even the pro-immigration, Bureau of Immigration and Population Research, could

not find any economic benefits from our immigration program – and their

conclusion came from a study which was biased by omitting the enormous

infrastructure costs mentioned above.

Too few people recognise or question the corrosive influence

internationalisation of our economy has had on our society and the part that

immigration is playing in that process – the breakdown of unionism and

consequent deterioration of awards/working conditions, the predatory nature of

foreign investment/ownership, the destruction of manufacturing/dropping of

tariffs and consequent unemployment/increased imports with associated increased

foreign debt, the privatisation of publicly own schemes and dual citizenship.

All of these contribute to our diminishing capacity to shape our national

destiny as we are re-colonised by deregulated global capacity. Bipartisanship

ensures these policies will further foreign take over towards a point of no

return. If we can not stop immigration we will never stop the rest.

UNEMPLOYMENT

A country in debt must decrease all spending. This means less jobs and higher

unemployment. We now have 1 million unemployed and to add 100,000 migrants each

year is insanity. These people can only take jobs from the existing pool or

join the dole queue. 40% of all migrants over the last 5 years have joined the

long term unemployment queues! A similar percentage of our own youth are also

unable to get a job.

To create a new job in Australia requires a capital outlay of $150,000 per job.

With a foreign debt of $170 billion we are in no position to create these new

jobs. We have spent our scarce funds on immigration induced growth, rather than

on plant, equipment, training and jobs in export and import replacing industries.

It is morally indefensible to import skilled labour into Australia whilst not

training our own youth and our skilled labour remains unemployed. Yet both

Liberal and Labour regard importing skilled migrants as the way to increase the

labour market!

DEFENCE

The 1987 government policy paper on the defence of Australia stated, ?no

population increase is necessary for defence?. Today’s defence needs require a

strong economy and sophisticated, expensive military infrastructure. We need a

professional well trained mobile technically advanced force with access to

sophisticated weapon systems. A cohesive and united society, not a divided

multicultural society, is what is needed for our defence.

HUMANITARIANISM

In a world with 95 million extra people per annum and with 35 million refugees,

our immigration program can only help 1/10th of 1% of these people and then only

at the expensive of our quality of life and environment. Foreign aid, not

immigration is the logical way for humanitarian relief.

Only genuine refugees in fear for their lives, should be granted temporary entry

into Australia and then returned to their country of origin when the danger is

passed. Economic illegal migrants, whether arriving in leaky boats or through

our airports and falsely claiming refugee status, should be immediately deported.

HEALTH

Our hospital waiting lists are evidence of the fact we are already not coping.

Many new diseases are mow being introduced into Australia. TB and Hepatitis B

from Asia will become a greater and greater problem. We are already seeing

1,000 deaths per annum from Hepatitis B and rates of TB contact in inner Sydney

schools of 25%. The government admits it does not have the resources to

immunise those as risk of Hepatitis B or to provide the necessary TB screening

procedures.

EDUCATION

Is the choice school or the dole? There is a shortage of real education

producing real skills for real jobs. The preferential admission of children of

migrants to universities under the unfair LOTE (Language Other Than English)

bonus ensures Australian children will be disadvantaged and the government will

create an educated ethnic elite to take over positions of power and control in

Australia.

MEDIA

Media communication on immigration and multiculturalism is severely censored,

the media presenting what they want you to know and think. Be your own judge

and do not rely on the flawed views of journalists whose job opportunities rely

on editors and media owners who are part of the pro-immigration lobby.

CULTURE

We understand the desire for migrants to maintain there culture in Australia for

Australians have exactly the same desire to maintain our culture, history and

traditions, and we see no reason why migrant cultures should be maintained when

it is at the expensive of ours. The Australian culture is unique and we shall

fight to defend it. Our culture emphasises a balanced life, free of excessive

striving and materialism and has created an attractive society. As in the USA,

Canada and New Zealand, Australia has incorporated the best features of British

culture – the balance of law, freedom and order, separation of public services

and politics, conflict solving by debate and not by force, violence and

insurrection, tolerance of minorities, economic opportunity, fortitude in war

without militarism and provision of social services. We have our distinctive

art, music, theatre, literature, sport and film with achievements in science,

medicine, social welfare and a unique quality of life.

Our culture developed from our history, our common memories, stories and

traditions. Australia led the way with the secret ballot, the 8 hour day votes

for women, invalid, widow and old age pensions, strong trade unions the

arbitration system and the basic wage. Our culture embodies the values of

egalitarianism and mateship. It rejects excessive authority and believes in a

fair go, admiration for the battler and a belief in the individual.

Currently we are seeing our culture replaced by a new culture for Australia,

called multiculturalism – a philosophy that has failed wherever in the world it

has been tried such as in Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia, Chechnya, Rwanda,

Tibet, Isreal, Briton, Timor ect. Multiculturalism always produces conflict

between group rights and individual rights. The small ?l’ liberal establishment,

who so strongly support multicultururalism, seem blind to the fact that their

philosophy of individual rights will disappear under the pressure of group,

ethnic and racial rights in a multicultural society.

Now we are being told that Australia is a part of Asia and that we must adopt

Asian cultural values. Values that are often totally alien to our civilisation

values and background.

COUNTRY AUSTRALIA

Country Australia is paying a high price for immigration. At the same time as

the government cries, ?poor?, and removes country services such as hospitals,

post offices, schools, police and railways ect., they bring into Australia

120,000 migrants per year and provides them with all the services in the cities.

You lose your post office and railways and migrants get jobs in post offices and

on railways! Immigration costs Australia $15 billion annually. Just imagine

the services which could be provided if this $15 billion were spent in rural

areas.

Electorally, one year’s migrant intake is now more important to our politicians

than rural Australia which has provided most of Australia’s export income for

200 years. Most countries look after their export earners, but our government

ignores, denigrates and exploits ours!

ASIANISATION

The government’s justification for continuing mass immigration into Australia

can be summarised in one word – Asianisation. Our politicians plan an Asian

future for Australia. As Immigration Minister, Senator Bolkus, said on the

6/12/94, ?we cannot cut and should not cut immigration because of our

integration with Asia?. Do we need to change the ethnic/racial make up of

Australia for trade? Trade comes and goes, but the soul of our nation should

not be traded for money, international approval or to fulfil a bizarre social

experiment.

70% of our program is from Asian countries and ANU demographer, Charles Price,

concluded that Australia will be 27% Asian within 25 years and of course it does

not stop there. In a democracy, how dare our government force such changes on

the Australian people without their consent, but also against their often polled

opinion.

IN SUMMARY:-

We have a clear choice of accepting increasing immigration with the consequent

exploitation of this land and a falling standard of living and quality of life,

living in crowded, polluted, high density cities, with over-taxed recreational

areas and intercommunal tensions and feeling like strangers in our own country.

The economic consequences of an increasing foreign debt, foreign ownership and

undesirable, unsustainable economic expansion, will destroy any chance of

maintaining the best features of Australian life as we know it. And, as migrant

numbers increase, there will be an escalating push for higher migrant intake

which eventually will be unstoppable.

OR

Stoping mass immigration and attempting to live in harmony with our fragile

environment, creating an economically and environmental sound, self reliant and

self sustaining community, maintaining our quality of life and handing to the

next generation a country to be cherished, and free from problems of over

population.