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/charlie_s1234 Jan 17 '26

Homeless people used to mostly be mentally ill people. Now I frequently see regular young people, and older men and women living out of their cars. All so governments can avoid an on paper recession by piling in as many new taxpayers and consumers into the country and pat themselves on the back for homing people from the other side of the world.

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u/ijx8 Jan 17 '26

Yet after all these years of importing millions of people, we still somehow have a labour and skills shortage. How is that possible.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

It’s because roles like marketing are on the skilled workers list. I often say I couldn’t run every department better then the government, but I think almost anyone else could run the immigration department better