{"id":275920,"date":"2025-08-31T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T05:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=275920"},"modified":"2025-12-22T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:27:36","slug":"melbournes-march-for-pausing-immigration-the-people-have-spoken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=275920","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne’s march for pausing immigration, the people have spoken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Melbourne, Australia’s fastest growing city and Australia’s largest became a witness to the people today. What transpired today should have not been a surprise to anyone especially Anthony Albanese<\/a> who at the last election was voted in for a second term of preferences with less than 1 in 3 people voting for a second Albanese term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia in many ways is at a crossroads, more and more immigration seeing millions of people landing on our shores into a usually tolerant country and accepting of immigration but without any house to live in. At the same time, we have australian’s who have lived here for decades unable to pay the rent and unable to find a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students cannot find a share house in which to live and house prices have become unaffordable to all except the wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This cannot and should not continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people of Australia are asking if not begging for a pause, and that pause should be granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I witnessed what I believe to be a minimum of 60,000 people floods the streets of Australia’s largest city and a city preferred by those moving to Australia. It was a peaceful and dignified march, not a protest, but a statement from the heart, enough is enough we cannot take anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw Australian national flags, the aboriginal flag, the torres strait islander flag, the eureka southern cross (the birth of democracy and rightful defence of oppression) being waved in the march. There was even an italian flag in the crowd I witnessed in Collins Street. All of those marching say enough is enough and we need to take back form the government this immigration lunacy driving up house prices, driving our children onto the street and pushing up our cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a bizarre show of defiance coupled with an uncaring and arrogant stance, Jacinta Allan was seen several weeks ago handing over the keys of a tax payer funded house to a new immigrant at the same time walking over our homeless in Melbourne between Spring Street and the government offices in Exhibition Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governments in Australia have become completely focused on what they want and no longer represent the people. They line their pockets and allow (in the case of Anthony Albanese), wholesale immigration Gaza and Palestine without security checks and with accomodation freely available to them and not Australians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Overall the march did not involve splinter groups, it avoided the Gaza and Palestine Sunday protest and allowed Australians who own this country to peacefully and directly send a message to Canberra and other state governments, it is time to pause immigration and better support those already here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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