The Labor Government needs to get their priorities straight and lower immigration now.
Too many people are being forced out of their homes due to high immigration.
This is all by design of course to save the banks from losing money as many people borrowed too much during Covid when interest rates were lowered too far.
As people are forced to sell because of the volatility in interest rates caused by the RBA, Treasury have increased immigration so that they will buy the houses Australians are forced to sell.
It’s just another example of complete mismanagement by our bureaucrats who should be serving us not destroying us.
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“Logan City Council park rangers have secretly relocated a number of homeless people to a Brisbane park with the treatment likened to “unwanted pets”.
It is understood several homeless people were relocated to Musgrave Park in South Brisbane last weekend.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said: “We have been assured by Logan City Council this will not happen again”.
“It demonstrates the extent of the current homelessness scourge and shows yet again why the State and Federal governments must stop making excuses and open the idle Pinkenba Quarantine Facility.”
But Micah Projects CEO Karyn Walsh described the actions of Logan City Council park rangers as “absolutely ridiculous” while Queensland Housing Minister Leeanne Enoch said:
“If this is an accurate report, it is completely unacceptable.
“People experiencing homelessness should not be shunted from one council area to another,” Ms Enoch said.
“The whole country is experiencing unprecedented housing challenges that Queensland is not immune from.””
And
“The number of tents pitched in the heart of Brisbane is enough to fill some of the most popular beachside camping spots in South East Queensland.
On Thursday morning, The Courier-Mail counted 73 tents within a 3km radius in the city centre – a number of holiday parks on the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast could be filled or almost filled by those people camping in the city.
Hundreds more could be forced on to the streets, expanding the current three tent cities and spreading further, as families face homelessness with fewer motels available to house people needing temporary accommodation.
The current cost-of-living and rental availability crisis has sparked a rise in tents being grouped together in the city, close to services that can assist those doing it tough.
On Thursday, along the river in South Brisbane beginning under William Jolly Bridge and Kurilpa Point Park, there were 28 tents crowded along the riverfront.”
Quote from:
https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/logan-city-council-secretly-relocating-homeless-people-to-brisbanes-musgrave-park/news-story/0c094acdf01c0342e0f9ab98785a0412
Senate on 9/10/2024
MATTERS OF URGENCY – Housing
Senator RENNICK (Queensland) (18:39): I, too, rise to speak on this motion because I think that we definitely need a plan/policy—however you want to call it—to deal with the catastrophic rise in population and the catastrophic rise in homelessness that is occurring in this country. It is clear that the Treasury, the immigration department and Home Affairs have lost control of our borders.
I note a comment made by the current head of the Treasury, Steven Kennedy, during the last set of estimates. I apologise if I don’t quote it verbatim, but it was along the lines of saying that he was surprised by the number of immigrants and visas of people who had come into the country. I remember being surprised that he would make such a remark because I would have thought the Treasury would also talk to the immigration department and talk to Home Affairs about the number of visas being issued, No. 1, and then the number of outstanding visas or visas that had been issued whereby people had not yet arrived from the visas that had been issued.
I think another key word in all of this planning or policy is actually ‘priorities’. As a government, a good government needs to get its priorities straight, and it is clear that the vested interests of universities and big corporations are being put in front of the needs of hardworking Australians in regard to both their ability to acquire housing as well as the ability for the government as a whole to build infrastructure that provides essential services. Finally, our skills based economy—why do we always have to necessarily use people from overseas? Do we really want a large university sector at the expense of a skills based sector in the trades? I feel as though our trades sector is being eroded in order of everyone going to university, getting a degree and then graduating broke and brainwashed. We need to get our priorities straight, and, if having a plan is a part of that, then so be it.
