By Jo Nova
This Sunday at lunchtime Australians will March in every capital city for Australia
It’s just another unmentionable topic. Most people don’t know that despite a moat filled with crocodiles, Australia has the highest rate of immigration in the Western World. Fully 31% of people living here today were born overseas. (And 28% in New Zealand). This is higher than the US (15%), the UK (17%), Canada (22%) and Europe (13%).
Who will we invite into our house to live?
It seems like a fundamental question of any civilization. Yet we’ve never voted for mass immigration, and never discussed it. No one in charge, it seems, has even asked “do we have enough rooms” before they gave out the house keys.
But the Blob got more jobs, more voters, and the price of their houses goes up as more people compete to buy the same number of homes. The Workers though, their wages stay low, rents increase, taxes grow, and their children can’t afford to buy a granny flat, or get married and have their own kids. Maybe that matters?
For some reason, even though we are the global Multicultural Star, and everyone is happy, The Blob doesn’t want Australians to talk about this. Indeed they are so afraid Australians might find out the real numbers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has even written to people to say they are misleading the public by quoting their own ABS monthly net permanent migration figures. (Thus, I feel I really have to share them.)
Leith van Onselen at Macrobusiness, writes on August 19th:
“Last week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported the strongest net permanent and long-term arrivals over the first six months of any year on record.
In the first half of 2025, a record 279,460 net permanent and long-term arrivals landed in Australia, up 13,080 (5%) from the 266,380 net arrivals that landed last year and 108,890 (64%) higher than the same period in 2019, before the pandemic.”
For some reason the ABS helpfully points out that other countries have higher foreign born factions — like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan and Kuwait. They don’t mention that the Gulf States have temporary laborers who cannot settle or bring families, get citizenship, or in the case of Jordan that they are wartime refugees.
Australia has been quietly at the top of this game for a long time:
If you want to help raise awareness to start that discussion and find out what Australians want, you can email friends, share on Facebook or print flyers to drop in letterboxes. The ABC probably won’t be promoting this.
Check the March for Australia site to find out your local details.