Vote 2019: Where the major parties stand on immigration

A month ago, the Coalition was gearing up for an election fought on border policy, warning of an influx of asylum seekers.

The Greens have been one of the most vocal opponents of offshore detention and would move to bring all asylum seekers to the mainland and limit onshore detention to seven days. In the wake of the Christchurch attacks, Scott Morrison chose his words carefully as he announced a reduction to the cap on permanent migration from 190,000 to 160,000, keen to head off accusations of racism."Just because Australians are worried about traffic jams and quality of life especially in a sprawling city like Melbourne, does not mean that they're anti-migrant or racist," he said during a speech in March.

The Coalition would also provide incentives for new migrants, such as overseas students, to move to regional areas in the form of scholarships, new visas and pathways to permanent residency.

So Census is done, as part of due diligence into the Future of the Country, yet Fed & State Govt’s are decades behind in Infrastructure development & planning. As with Publi Housing, Public Infrastructure is firmly at all Govt’s feet for failure. Time to go back to Post WW2 ideas

only One Nation or Fraser Anning, but with the election already rigged voters have no say.

It’s not congestion caused by people but by poor demographic and infrastructure planning!!

500,000 foreign students in Australia with work permissions in any year harm work prospects of school leavers whose first jobs are formative.

Build new cities.

Sooo government fails to plan infrastructure for decades and now it’s the immigrant’s fault?!

So immigrants, native people, minorities all told to change, by mainly white men who refuse to change hmmmmm irony much

Congestion in our cities is about government’s lack of foresight and planning to create infrastructure to support a growing population. It is nothing to do with immigration. Shame on you SBS for this headline.

Omg congestion and migrants have you ever thought that Australian citizens are in fact multiplying themselves therefore causing the congestion and our cities are really small compared to the rest of the world ! So they appear busy

So, migrants are worrying because of new migrants?

None that's why Never vote Liberals Labor or Greens. They are screwing the future of this beautiful country!

How about lack of planning, greedy politicians, giving developers powers to do as they please, limited jobs and resources outside of the big cities (Melb Syd Bris)

Governments failed to invest in city infrastructure for decades - no point blaming migrants now when all this could have been dealt with properly if Governments had done their jobs.

Immigration built Australia 😯

Cut a long story short, the population growth isn’t the economy. A smaller population can create a more sustainable society, and the costs associated with the world’s ageing population are manageable. An ageing population is good for us and the planet.

is it a migration or rather an URBAN PLANNING issue?

It's stupud to blame migrants or immigration for congestion. The problem is with successive governments failing to plan for the future. Australia needs Imigrants for it to continue it's development.

One nation 🇦🇺

Roads aren’t the only problem with over population our country is big but 90% is desert no one lives there we are all cutting down and infesting the only part ( the coast and surrounds ) that’s green . The Aussie environment can handle no more people

Perhaps we would be better off joining the belt and road project. Some Infrastructure might actually be built !!

Neither party did anything for decades. And all they have now is slogans and a few token gestures they call an Infrastructure Plan 😔.

This is like when retailers put a SALE sign after jacking the price.

Cut permanent immigration to 70000 reduce temporary residents to 100000 with very strict work tests and for every work visa must demonstrate investment in apprenticeship or retraining for Australian VoteSustainable zeropopulationgrowth auspol PopnMatters

Scapegoating those who come to Australia for opportunities and a better life is just wrong.

So it’s the migrants fault?

We need entrepreneurs and successful business people You can keep building houses and roads when the future wants science and technology

It’s easy. Invest in more infrastructure. Jobs and growth!

Neither of them understands city planning....both are indebted to construction companies who build roads that fill as fast as we can build them. Why do people act like we haven’t had 6 years of LNP following 6 years of ALP? With house of reps fairly evenly divided between them...

Actually congestion puts the spot light on the failure of past governments to plan

I’m living outside the major city and it’s great. Except for distinct lack of jobs, transport and infrastructure.

Congestion is only a problem cause the federal LNP have been fleecing tax payer $$ in offshore accounts through various scams reefgate watergate paladin (Majority offshore detention) for there own political needs & personal gains. No fed. gov. prior had a problem.

Immigration is irrelevant to the congestion in big cities.

Rubbish. The spotlight was switched on by Morrison lying that congestion is because of immigration and NOT because of his government's poor infrastructure plans.

here we go again, blame the immigrants, not the governments who we literally pay a fortune to provide the infrastructure we need. Which party will stop shifting the blame and build roads and public transport?

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