I understand why people want to escape India but it would be better if they try to unfuck their own country. The West cannot absorb a billion refugees.

> I understand why people want to escape India

That's wrong thing to try and understand. We don't have to accept anybody. As Howard said, "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come". And he achieved that. He also orchestrated the biggest proportional uptick in immigration the country has seen this or last century.

Immigration was never driven by people trying escaping India. The issue is our politicians invited them in with open arms. The irony is the very same politicians from the conservative side were pushing their "big Australia" agenda while at the same time noisily ranting against "illegal immigration" with emotive terms like "children overboard".

If you thought Howard was against immigration, you were sucked in by his outright deceptive tactics. He was the biggest immigration proponent I've seen in my lifetime. I'd give it a 50/50 chance of it working out the same way for One Nation. Their core supporters are rural and the elderly. Both are highly dependent on immigrant workers.

The right framing isn't "people escaping India", but rather how many and what type of immigrants the pollies want - because that is what determines what we get. Any politician who tells you otherwise is bullshitting you. Illegal immigration never made much of an impression on the real immigration figures.

India being unfucked slowly, decade by decade. A couple more, and unless multiple catastrophes happen, they won’t be moving in such numbers to Australia. Maybe more for tourism than anything else.

Outside of niche subjects, I doubt students in India of more than decent talent are considering Australia seriously for study. Talented people can make more in India in absolute terms, plus they won’t have to fight the entrenched wealth or high home prices.

We’ll get there, don’t worry.

Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Vietnam also have high student visa family rates in Australia. It's not just an India problem.

And a decade ago it used to be Chinese until China started a trade war with Australia [0][1].

[0] - https://theconversation.com/students-in-china-heed-their-gov...

[1] - https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/chinese-students-wil...

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