Peter Strachan

President: Sustainable Population Australia
Corporate Analyst, | retweet or follow does not mean endorsement | 11 years working in Africa, PNG & London

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

Another brilliant interview from our National President, @Peter_Strachan on immigration & Australia's population policy.
from 2m 30sec.

https://t.co/fSGcgNmqSa

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

I have these 2 am thoughts as well.
There are no buts about it!

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

2am thoughts

It makes me deeply sad to think to about the damage being done to the fabric of Australian society.

Where once there was conceptual support for migration and outsiders becoming Australians, today some polls see a narrow majority seeing migration as a negative for society.

It's worth making a distinction here, these individuals not only see the level of migration as untenable, but migration itself overall as a net negative.

I can't help but think of some of the migrants I know, people who spent ~40 years on the tools, building homes, shops and infrastructure.

For our policymakers to screw things up so badly that these hard working people who integrated into our society to be seen as a group that is a net negative is a shameful failure.

The growing opposition to high migration and the damage being done economically and socially has been obvious for a long time for anyone willing to look for it.

Honestly, if Canada and Britain are any guide, it may be too late to salvage broad based support for migration, that may take years if not decades to repair.

But the time to start respecting the democratic will of the people is now, for the sake of all our future's.

[Paul @PaulH1]

@SustPopAus The burden is being imposed on most of us. Traffic, hospital waiting rooms, crowded classrooms, constant construction, disrupted neighbourhoods, less opens space /parks per capita, heat islands, less backyards for kids. Stop fast population growth fuelled by mass immigration.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Why indeed? How does population expansion benefit Australians, & what is the purpose of population growth otherwise?
Is the environment more sustainable, & is our quality of life enhanced as population numbers increase?
Clearly no!

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

Currently Australia is adding ~1 million people every 3 years (mostly via immigration).

If this agenda is allowed to continue, in 30 years we'll have 38 million & by century's end we'll have 53 million.

We're imposing a heavy burden on our land, resources & children... why?
https://t.co/xrfPwhSVV1

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Of course, negative gearing & capital gains tax concessions favour investors who out-bid homeowners, pushing up prices, but who would invest if house prices could fall without the impact of rising demand from population growth?
Let's #LiveWithinLimits

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

@SustPopAus A 05:45 plus plenty of comments later.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Two decades of "mass immigration" has done wonders for labour productivity

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Rapid population growth is killing wealth as per capita GDP declines in 10 of the past 15 quarters and tracks 0.5% below its level in Q2 2022
https://t.co/BInp3ImYBV

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Disgraceful useful idiots!

[G @Notmistaken]

https://t.co/n8EkWiWrRt

Here's SBS puffing up our 28m milestone (tragedy). Neither pause, nor reflection, to consider if endless immigration-fed population growth is what Australia want or needs. Not a word, either, on the Environment. That, apparently, is unimportant.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

https://t.co/tHtoW2HbGG
Lots of follow-on with Adam Steer and listeners from 2:09

[G @Notmistaken]

@AshPolitik Rubbish, ASH.

That claim has been analysed & debunked over & over.

Happy to have the Libs share the blame, though.

But you have gotta stop trying so hard.

Left wing propaganda is as execrable as that which emanates from the Right.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

@AshPolitik Okay. What was the e average NOM pre COVID and how does the most recent rate compare,

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

The sad reality is that everybody who voted LNP/ALP/Greens & Teals over the last 20 years, did vote for this population strategy.
They've all consistently made it clear that they support high immigration & a rapidly growing population...

We'd ask all to make population policy their No.1 voting priority,
& encourage all candidates to have the courage to support our "Six Great Immigration" solutions: https://t.co/tjR3yUPbG8

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Random boat.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

@DavidPocock What price a violent death,

[Lisa @Lisa9Sophia]

28 Million People, I won’t call them Australians

Australia went from 26.27 Million Australians in 2022 to 28 Million as of today. 432,500 permanent arrivals a year

Largely these foreigners are unskilled, incompatible, and have no intention of assimilating

We’re in real trouble

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

After the storm in Geographe Bay. Beached

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

@2020digging @AlanKohler @abcnews So long as the mortgage can be met, it's a place to live, just like all housing should be, but not necessarily a short-term investment asset.

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

This week Australia's population will pass 28 million.

Australia's population has increased by 9 million since early in the year 2000, an average rise of around 29,510 per month over the past 25 years and 5 months.

However, the pace has quickened over recent years. In the post-COVID period since May 2022, when a population of 26 million was passed, Australia’s residential population rose by an average of 41,667 per month.
By January 2024, just 29 months ago, a population of 27 million was hit, with that next million arriving in just 18 months at a pace of 55,000 per month.

The most recent addition of a million residents arrived at a totally unsustainable pace, averaging 34,480 people per month. (Note: this equals over a third of our post war average total annual intake!)

While the property lobby, linked business interests (eg universities/major retail chains) & politicians will be popping the champagne corks over these numbers,
... we understand them to be the cause of an unfolding polycrisis tragedy for our nation.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

Many think that migrants are essential to the economy because they seem ubiquitous; however, ~52% of Australian residents were either born overseas or have at least one parent who was, so the reason they are everywhere is that they are heavily on the demand and supply side of everything.