P.S. as with most years about 61,000 Australians bring in their Partners and kids to migrate to Australia and pay $6,865 for Partner and if applicable $1,720 kid under 18 for the privilege. + $418,765,000 per year. and $100,000 to bring in your parents.
...And that's nowhere near enough money to build even a fraction of the infrastructure required, at a rate fast enough to keep up with
yesterdays population, let alone the future population if we keep Net Overseas Migration at levels around 200000 per annum (around 41 million by 2060 according to the Productivity Commission). Not. Even. Close.
I remember seeing somewhere, that the dollar amount
per immigrant above replacement level for infrastructure requirements was some astronomical number. $180k odd. Without that kind of spend, quality of life goes down unless you can get people to not all move to Melbourne and Sydney (and the other Major Capitals).
Most politicians aren't interested in doing anything as it is possibly the biggest single lever you could pull to take pressure of housing prices (the Australian Real Estate Ponzi would start to crumble). Not only that, but the lazy GDP increase of around 2% makes the incompetents in Government of the last 10 years, look extremely clever. Nevermind the decrease in GDP per capita and thus resulting... well, reduction in quality of life. Ultimately, you'll end up with resentment against ALL immigrants, instead of welcoming just enough to get the benefits we need, and do our bit to help the rest of the world (refugees).
Dick has a massive point. One Nation is merely providing an avenue for his concerns to be acted on.