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Election 2025 is less about Liberal vs Labor, more about the top 20% vs the rest

By Stephen Saunders - posted Friday, 7 March 2025


Up in the other hemisphere, here and here and elsewhere, high-end mouthpieces are bowled over by boutique Denmark. Who knew, maybe a leftish democratic party can win and hold government, asserting a degree of nationalism, toning down crazy levels of immigration.

Almost like, listening to hapless voters a little. How would that work? Isn't that just a bit racist? Do they not even have a proper Laura Tingle?

At Statistics Denmark, Copenhagen's so-called "paradigm shift" seems to have pared net migration to the low 30,000s, maybe 0.5% of Denmark's population. By common sense and European standards, still generous and compassionate. Ssh, still very high, by Danish historical standards.

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Not even the Danish level of "reform" could happen here - we're too far gone. Directly after the once-in-a-century COVID immigration-freeze, a mildly perturbed Liberal and Labor fairly fell over themselves, to reboot the Down Under real-estate narco-state. Who would be greatly surprised, if Indians now outnumbered Australians, as buyers in Victoria's new housing-estates? The state-government hoax of "better planning" will sooner or later catch up with their service needs. Right down to the Punjabi road-signs.

Liberal and Labor-Green will continue to compete, for who can offer the most UN-respectful nirvana. Who can appease, specialised requirements of the diasporas concentrating in certain Sydney and Melbourne electorates. Federal elections can almost turn on such niceties. Ask Bill Shorten (2019) and Scott Morrison (2022).

For Australia's top 20% then, it's not even enough, to entrench net-migration of 235,000-250,000 (probably rather more) as the absolute ground-floor.

Nor would it ever be enough, for Treasury intellectuals to pump Australia's population towards 40 million, on their cartoon pathway to "environment repair" and "net zero".

Nope, the top 20% also need to rewrite history, to further burnish themselves. Government, media, academics, industry, grind out Treasury's alternate truth, that 235,000 is just average. Although, we'd never once topped 200,000 before 2007.

Expect to see this truthy truth reflected by our schools and universities, and absorbed into academic histories, much of these written by the committed left. Expect Albanese's social engineering to wrap into the furniture, even if Dutton replaces him. Social cohesion - and living standards – won't improve.

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