Australians Against Further Immigration Essay Research Paper — страница 2

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