Politics for the Eco-Nationalist

Hello one and all.

As I haven’t updated my own blog in a little while (like a year) I thought I’d do a little post on Jonny’s blog. And what, might you ask, is the thing that has inspired me to write a bog entry after all this time?

The local election.

Yes I’m living proof that you turn into you parents at a certain age, and as I am approaching 30 this year I’m getting old.

Anyway, I got up this morning and remembered that we had elections in NSW yesterday and maybe I should find out who now represents Manly.

I was hoping for a Green win, partly because the Liberal Democrat and the Labour politicians here seem to run their election campaigns by throwing mud at each other and not much else. There’s no such thing as the Conservative party over here, well, not officially anyway. But with politicians like John Howard you’d think there was.

Anyhoo, I digress. The Lib Dems won. But that’s not the reason for the blog.

I had a look to see who was standing for election in Manly and discovered that there is a party called “Australians Against Further Immigration”. Or eco-nationalists as they like to call themselves.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, we have our own BNP.

Note that they have to say “further” immigration, as if they were against immigration completely they would be against themselves. The irony doesn’t end there.

So I thought I’d consult trusty Google to find out more, and this is what I found:

Who are we?
Australians Against Further Immigration is an eco nationalist party founded in 1989. We have contested elections at both State and Federal levels.

We acknowledge with pride the important role that immigration has played in the making of Australia, but we believe that the time for mass immigration has past.

Our primary aim is an immediate halt to net immigration and the implementation of a policy of zero net immigration under which immigration levels would be equivalent to average annual emigration.

Continuing high immigration across New South Wales is having a negative impact on our education, healthcare and legal systems as well as the environment.

Note the second paragraph. What this actually means is “we're lucky enough to live in this beautiful country but everyone else can sod off”.

What do we stand for?
Education and Training: With high unemployment and skill shortages we should be training our own unemployed instead of importing skilled workers, often from developing countries that can ill afford to lose them. Past governments have cut back funding for apprenticeships and training, whilst we would work to reverse this by decreasing large scale skilled migration with a view to its complete cessation and rather investing in education and training for Australians.

It’s the age-old, fool-proof argument a la The Sun newspaper that “they come over here and take all our jobs”. They’ve neglected to mention that many people with skills have to completely retrain when they come over here (many in the building trade and construction for example) as their skills aren’t recognised and many companies in other industries will not employ workers that don’t have Australian experience on their CV.

Healthcare: Our public hospital system is in crisis! Expenditure has not kept up with increasing needs. Our hospitals are short staffed and pay is inadequate. Savings from cuts to immigration would enable the hiring of more staff at better pay rates.

Um, surely bringing skilled workers such as doctors and nurses into the country can ease this? And due to the stringent medicals immigrants have to go through to get into the country, along with the crack down on immigrants over 30, they are less likely to be a drain on health care resources but are all the while paying the taxes that support the healthcare system. As immigrants have to be skilled to get into the country, they are likely to be earning over the £20K annual salary limit that dictates Australian residents have to take out private medical cover.

Savings? I was under the impression (obviously misled) that immigrants paid to get into Australia and were unable to claim any kind of income support for two years so therefore are less of a drain on taxes.

Rural and Regional Australia: High immigration has had a devastating effect on smaller rural communities. Some of the results have been cuts to rail and health services. Cessation of large scale immigration would contribute substantially to at minimum arresting, at best reversing this insidious process.

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Answers on a postcard.

Environment and Law and Order: Continuing immigration means more pollution, gridlock, traffic and social dislocation which translate into more crime and social unrest. Such social tension was demonstrated at Cronulla in late 2005.

It’s true. Research has revealed that immigrants have produced twice the levels of CO2 when they exhale compared to the average white Australian therefore causing more pollution.

“Social tension” or to you and I “racism and ignorance”.
Speaking of which…

Furthermore, Australia is currently experiencing a catastrophic drought and on account of this immigration should be drastically reduced. It is illogical to have such high levels of immigration when we do not have enough water for our existing population consequently leading to the possibility of our people having to drink recycled toilet water.

I thought the poms brought the rain with them? According to the Australian office worker “it never rains where we need it”. My suggestion is this. Take the poms and stand them in these crucial areas. This may also relieve the “devastating effect” we are having on the smaller rural areas.

Cutting immigration will ease pressure on our environment and promote social cohesion, raise living standards and make a better quality of life for all Australians.

Shouldn’t that be “…a better quality of life for all white Australians”????

I suppose it's good news for the Australians Against Further Immigration Party that immigrants can't vote until they get citizenship. It's also worth noting that a key policy of the AAFI in the upcoming NSW Elections is the proposed deportation of all migrants arrived in Australia since 1990.

Well, it's a free flight home I suppose...

H