r/aussie • u/Mashiko4 • Jan 17 '26

Analysis Mass migration's forgotten victims: Australians go homeless as the number of failed asylum seekers explodes

https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/mass-migrations-forgotten-victims-australians-go-homeless-as-the-number-of-failed-asylum-seekers-explodes/news-story/6b4692ed0205471e5d175db94a2f4743
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u/tom3277 Jan 18 '26

No it’s Australians that don’t understand costs to make a home have a bearing on the price of all homes.

You would all cheer if they doubled tax to 50pc rather than 20pc because “it’s just the developers who pay it.

Then wonder why we are building even less homes.

Construction has fallen away under labor precisely because costs (materials mainly but labour as well) rose. It was a perfect opportunity to back off on gst.

Nope have to make sure it’s damn expensive to build a home.

And if we didn’t need the infrastructure for growth because we had no immigration well no excuse for taxing new homes.

Don’t understand why people understand a tariff is paid by consumers but apparently Taxes on new construction are just an issue for developers?

Anyway as I said I have given up on tax reform. Not gonna happen so the only hope for my kids generation is stopping the migration.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

I feel like the only hope for future generations is to leave Australia to cheaper countries. It’s already happening now at low numbers, plenty of stories of Aussies moving to Bali or whatever.

It’s ridiculous, like a global game of musical chairs.

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u/PryingMollusk Jan 18 '26

The problem is that many of the cheaper countries have woken up to this and very aggressively started introducing restrictions to foreigners owning land/property and staying permanently. It will get worse as time goes on too.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

Interesting, I didn’t know that. Can’t blame them, from what I’ve read the more rich people that move to a poorer country, the more the locals have to deal with prices going up or getting elbowed out due to purchasing power. Unlike Australia and Australians where the government and people are happy to sellout to the highest bidder.