Australia’s population is booming during an acute housing crisis. That spells trouble for the government, and for social cohesion.
, when Bob Menzies was prime minister and the British were setting off their first nuclear test in Australian territory, Pauline Hanson stood up in the Senate to claim vindication.
It’s true that social harmony has been put under new pressure over the past few months. The barbaric Hamas attack on Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu’s savage retaliation against Gaza has inflamed sentiment in Australia. Remarkably, this record increase in immigration doesn’t seem to have aggravated unemployment, even during an economic slowdown.
It was only a year and a half ago that Peter Dutton said, “we do need an increase in the migration numbers”. He certainly got what he wished for. This sort of inflammatory racism is death to Australia’s social harmony and national functioning. Yet it’s just a small foretaste of the divisive, right-wing populism that will follow unless the country fixes its housing problems, and its accompanying problems of missing infrastructure.
Whether it’s legal immigration or illegal is irrelevant for the purposes of political exploitation. “Otherness” and resentment are the only prerequisites.
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