How can the resistance ever counter, Copacabana Albanese's 1.5m migrants?

French political scientist Julia Cagé suggested citizen democracy vouchers, parliamentary quotas for worker-candidates. Our comfy academics barely perceive the problem.

Don't hold your breath, for an exceptional leader to rescind Huge Australia.

Popular unrest?

Pre-federation, Australia's miners and unionists staged the occasional riot. After decades of tolerable divvies of earthly loot, unrest has become uncommon.

However, neo-liberalism and massive migration have shrivelled the fair go. Housing affordability is at a historic low, school funding flagrantly regressive.

When voters are scorned, it can feed into politics, or popular unrest.

Biden-Harris Open Borders is divisive. In the UK, horrific killings by a teen of Rwandan origin triggered riots. BBC blamed racism, not the Tory immigration deluge, post-Brexit.

Yet net migration into metropolitan France (population 66 million) is lower than that into Australia (27 million). Overseas born are only 10%, compared with our 30%.

Nevertheless, street demos over chronic inequality and discrimination are common. Summer 2023 protests came on top of the gilets jaunes.

Australia, by contrast, has gone woke. Rather than protesting Open Borders or school segregation, youth/green movements agitate for "climate action".

International pressure?

Some international environmental criticism is evident, over Australia's coal mining, Great Barrier Reef, native forest logging, or iconic native fauna.

EU threatened the Coalition government with carbon border-taxes, but the global north hailed "climate reformer" Albanese. Dictatorial UN bosses Australia – we might have to take "national populations" of "climate refugees". Albanese laps this up.

With Australia's environmentalists running the UN line, international pressure serves largely to increase - not reduce – our population load.