Protecting Australian jobs from cheap labour. By B.W. Jackson in The Spectator.

We are often told that Australia needs foreign workers because there are many ‘jobs that Australians won’t do’. …

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas argued that we need migrants to ‘wipe the bums’ of the elderly in aged care. During the pandemic, Adam Marshall, then New South Wales Agriculture Minister, said many Australians were too ‘soft and lazy’ to work on farms. …

Instead of allowing wages to rise or fixing the way our welfare system impacts the incentives to work, many important people tend to favour another solution – importing foreign workers.

Alexandra Marshall sums up the main point nicely:

In the 1840s, when farmers wanted to bring in a huge cheap Indian labour force to do the jobs ‘free settlers and convicts wouldn’t do’ – the government said NO.

They argued it would threaten social coherency and undercut the job market for the whole population in a fragile nation.

Did the nation collapse without cheap labour?

No.

Australia innovated wire fences and led an technological revolution in agriculture having been denied cheap labour which continued to hold back other markets.

And what are the modern parties of Labor and the LNP doing?

Leaning into ‘cheap labour’ to ‘save the economy’ while condemning Australia’s job market and killing off our ingenuity while our cultural and social cohesion is destroyed.

Australians will do all those jobs, if the difference between their wages and welfare is made large enough. Duh.

The current ruling class is wrecking our country so they can get rich on cheap labor. They get voted into control of government money by buying the votes of those on welfare, and bringing in third world immigrants.