In Australia, racist violence is nothing new. But emboldened neo-Nazis form a frightening new spectre

https://lemmy.world/post/35519655

In Australia, racist violence is nothing new. But emboldened neo-Nazis form a frightening new spectre - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

The Mainstream Media machine is in “Full Spin” mode, I see…
I do not understand the meaning of this comment. They are literally discussing our racist tendencies
If you don’t understand, then you’re either blind or stupid or both.
Translation: “i can’t answer this without exposing an agenda”

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

That’s 500,000 coming in via immigration. This includes returning citizens. What is the number that left Australia during the same period? The data is available at the same location. You need to subtract one from the other and then look at that number and how it has changed over the last decade.