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Australians never voted for Albanese Open Borders

By Stephen Saunders - posted Thursday, 20 July 2023


His blitzkrieg bypasses voters and parliament. Suits our retro "democracy" of donors and stakeholders.

Albanese approaches Open Borders nirvana.

As we emerged from COVID, Scott Morrison strove to restore "Big Australia" immigration. Albanese concealed the next-level blueprint.

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Influencer Abul Rizvi disparages Home Affairs boss Mike Pezzullo. Albanese retained him regardless. Gunning for 400,000 +315,000 in net migration over 2022-24.

Under Kevin Rud , Albanese was Infrastructure Minister. Forget infrastructure, as he blitzes Rudd's 24-month migration record. By 140,000 plus.

Just two years ago, COVID border-closure shrank net migration to a 100-year low of negative 85,000. Albanese's pretext, to overtop Rudd.

While his Treasury gaslights voters. With their cockeyed claim, our population is trending "smaller and older". Due to migrants "lost" [unarrived] during COVID.

Now Albanese has gone next, next level. With his impetuous "qualifications mechanism" and "mobility partnership" for Modi.

On the page, the mechanism resembles a passable forgery.

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Carte blanche, post-secondary Indian qualifications are recognised here. And vice versa. Wait on - Indian qualifications aren't generally the same standard.

Re the partnershi , this is the gist of various reports.

Five-year visas for Indian students – no numerical limit. Eight-year work rights – for all Indian graduates of Australian universities. Three thousand at a time, Indian graduates or professionals can enter for two years - or permanently.

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