Alright, you want the long answer? Australia is in the middle of the worst housing crisis in our history, and what does the government do? Import record numbers of people to make the problem worse! That’s the opposite of what we should do. When the people point this out by protesting, what does the MSM and government say? “You’re all a bunch of racists! How dare you ask us, your masters, to lower immigration levels!” The Government’s main priority right now should be fixing the housing crisis, not making it worse. You say I have an agenda? Yeah, my agenda is “Being able to live a decent life in the country I was born in”, and right now, the government’s policies are making that harder and harder by increasing demand on infrastructure and services (schools, hospitals and roads) that are struggling to keep up.

Now tell me, what part of this is supposed to help Australia and it’s people and not just help the wealthy elites?

That’s what the protests are about.

Some people I know who supported the protests do so because they’re upset at the upcoming spare bedroom tax, which aims to bring more homes on the market to lower prices. They don’t care about housing people, they care about profit.

I’m also not convinced cutting immigration would help at all when it would only discourage construction, which is already below what’s needed to support birthrate + people moving in from rural areas. Immigration isn’t the cause of the crisis, so cutting it isn’t the solution.

Australia built 180,000 homes in 2024

Australia’s immigration numbers were around 500,000 over the same period.

But no, that totally doesn’t have any negative impact on housing affordability. /s

You seem to be under the impression that we will just magically build and build if people are gone, but that’s not realistic. My point was that reducing immigration would significantly cut the number of houses built under the current housing market. We may be building too few homes now, but I doubt much at all will be built after cutting immigration either.

The problem is not that we have a housing market that’s too big, it’s that we have a broken market. Housing entering the market in this country may be insufficient when demand is high, but it’s straight up not entering the market where demand is low, and housing prices are higher than ever everywhere. We need to figure out why the market is broken and fix that if we even want so see housing prices stabilise for an extended period, let alone fall. Reducing immigration is a distraction at best.