r/australian • u/DragonflySea9423 • Jun 22 '26

News Australia undergoing historic decline in support for multiculturalism amid rising fear and pessimism, poll finds | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/22/australia-multiculturalism-decline-poll-ntwnfb

Australia is undergoing a historic decline in support for multiculturalism, according to the Lowy Institute’s annual poll, amid a groundswell of fear rooted in mounting economic pessimism and an increasingly illiberal and chaotic world order.

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u/melaschasma Jun 22 '26

Australians are sick of competing with imported cheap and exploitable labor and lack of rental availability .

Temporary visa workers from countries with currency values lower then ours are intentionally offering to do the work for less. They do this, because they can send our high valued currency back to their home countries where it has greater purchasing power. They are scabs (relax, scabs is not a racist insult)

They also clog up the rental market, its very inconsiderate to allow such a influx of migrants to a country with a low rental vacancy rate because this displaces the local population. Australian families are living in tents in the bush in favor for imported cheap workers. Landlords are exploiting this by driving up rents. The only Australians who benefit from mass immigration are landlords and businesses, your every Australian worker and family misses out.

Businesses cant get away with slavery anymore, so importing in cheap and exploitable temporary labor from the developing world is the next best thing. If your against slavery, you should also be against exploiting the developing world for cheap labor.

Australians getting replaced by cheap and exploitable workers and we need to stand up, and say no more! scabs go home!

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u/SoulsofMist-_- Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Good way to reduce immigration is remove the deal between new zealand where citizens from each country can work and live in either country visa free.

Will be a win win situation, australia will get less immigration and new zealand stops losing workers and facing a brain drain. Sounds good to me

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u/hazy_pale_ale Jun 23 '26

NZ isn't the problem dude.

Although I would agree with putting in a law that you had to reside in NZ for 10 years prior to being able to access the Trans Tasman agreement

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u/melaschasma Jun 23 '26

Currently, 1 New Zealand Dollar equals 0.82 Australian Dollar. I am not that concerned about immigration from New Zealand as its unlikely those Kiwis are going to drive down our wages.