One Million Migrants in 2 Years Strains our Housing, Infrastructure, Health & Education Services & Strains Social Cohesion

Our nation has been built on migration. We appreciate that we are a multicultural nation and enjoy our diversity. However almost 1 million people have migrated here in Labor’s first two years – 70 per cent higher than in any previous two-year period. A new person is migrating to Australia every 46 seconds. Our infrastructure – homes, hospitals, schools etc cannot cope with this and social cohesion has become an issue.

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Thousands of visas have been granted to people from a war zone without adequate security checks. Convicted criminals have been released from immigration detention and have re-offended. People smugglers are still plying their trade. Proponents of a “Big Australia” believe it will boost the economy but at what cost to the livability of Australia socially and infrastructure sustainability?

I stand for:

• Reduce immigration to sustainable levels in line with our housing and infrastructure limitations and ability to service the population.

• Protect our borders from illegal migration

• Strengthen our detention laws to protect Australians from violent criminals

• Strengthen the character test and apply it re new visas and do proper security checks

• Adjust our laws so that we can deport non-citizens who have offended even if their country refuses to take them e.g. find a third country to take them.