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Australians never voted for Albanese Open Borders

By Stephen Saunders - posted Thursday, 20 July 2023


It's less he needs to stage-manage voters. No, the elite must police themselves. We feel their pain.

Though Senator Hanson's prospective immigration plebiscite never mentioned race, she looked to have racist "form". The Senate thrashed her.

Albanese's immigration ambush, as she tweeted, betrayed election promises. ABC Fact Check cadre "proved" the opposite.

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Local workers and wages, in Senator Keneally's moderate 2020 opinion, ought to come first. Dial immigration back.

Team Albanese flashed her the Card. Media piled on. She walked it back. Took that hospital pass to Fowler Electorate.

Member Dutton links extreme rental/homeless distress, to immigration deluge. Never mentioned race. Wouldn't dare, specify low migration, in numbers.

Nonetheless, woke Guardian and Nine pundits brandished the Card. Another reader of mine despairs at these "progressives":

Progressives in this country draw the line at protecting the poor, the young and disenfranchised, if it comes at the cost of de facto open borders.

Few wealthy nations practise Open Borders.

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Open Borders, declaims California pol-sci prof Sarah Song, has emerged as the dominant normative position.

Implying rich nations are (should be) practising voracious immigration. Presto, world and national economies win. "Skill shortages" get sorted.

Sceptics are sin-binned as nativists. Code for racist.

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