Labor doesn't care about your marches: This one immigration commitment reveals what Australia’s future looks like, and it’s not pretty

The Albanese government basically confirmed Australia's future with a three-sentence statement that condemns the nation to continued mass immigration and the disastrous consequences that come with it, writes Jordan Knight.

In the aftermath of the recent marches against mass immigration, amid all the condemnation and attacks, one crucial comment stuck out.

In just a few short words, the Albanese government basically confirmed Australia’s future.

Not just in the years ahead, but the decades too.

And it won’t be pretty.

“The Albanese Labor government will maintain the 2025-26 Permanent Migration Program at the same level and settings as the 2024-2025 Program, 185,000,” Immigration Minister Tony Burke said last week.

“It follows consultation with the states and territories, which recommended maintaining the size and composition of the program, with a focus on skilled migration,”

“The Department of Home Affairs has been processing visas based on last year’s level, so there has been no disruption to the delivery of the Program.”

That’s politician-speak for: we don’t care about your marches, we’re not cutting immigration.

If true – and there’s no reason to doubt it – then what it means is that Australia will now almost certainly join the same trajectories as France, Britain, Germany and America.

There, the country’s populations are engaged in a long and brutal political battle with their governments over immigration.

While the people themselves are forced to grapple with multiplying problems, from crime and cultural problems, worsened by unwanted immigration.

And now, thanks to Anthony Albanese, the Labor Party, and many others, Australia will join them.

It’s not hard to envisage how this plays out.

By keeping permanent immigration in the hundreds of thousands – rather than reducing to the tens of thousands, or even pausing altogether – Anthony Albanese is condemning Australia to continued mass immigration, and the Europe-style problems that come with it.

He’d rather do that than listen to those who marched, and the many millions across Australia who want more sensible numbers.

He has locked in the historically high number of 185,000 for at least the next year.

And with new migrants overwhelmingly voting for Labor, it will likely be for longer.

Remember: That figure doesn’t even include a major bulk of Australia’s migrant intake: temporary migrants and international students.

We already have around one million foreign students enrolled in Australian courses, with easier access to permanent residency, home purchasing, and Australian jobs.

Put simply, Albanese’s commitment to double down on mass immigration will have a noticeable impact on your standard of living over the next three years.

It will mean that the tens of thousands of Australians who marched a few weeks ago will not get the immigration breather they so desperately need.

It means that real wages will continue to stagnate and decline, while house and rental costs will continue to rise.

It means the laidback Australian culture that we grew up in is set to weaken, replaced instead with new cultures, many unwilling to adopt our own.

In effect, it means that things in Australia, the country we know and love, will continue to get worse.

Barring any unforeseen historical event, our nation will see continued decline under the weight of its unwanted mass migration program, forced onto us by a negligent government.

This isn’t imaginary; it’s already playing out elsewhere.

To see Australia’s future, you don’t need a magic 8-ball; you only need to look across the pond.

Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Ireland, and many others have already been down this path before.

They come as a dire warning of what to expect.

Like in Ireland, where young people well into their 20s and 30s are forced to live at home thanks to the immigration-fuelled housing crisis.

Like in France, who has faced issues of crime and enclaves, where the country risks becoming ungovernable.

Like Sweden, which had more bomb attacks than a warzone at one point.

And Britain too, where riots, protests and civil disorder are becoming the norm, as the state struggles to balance the effects of immigration with an increasingly angry native population.

The situation there has deteriorated so much that King’s College Professor in War David Betz has made the prediction that the country itself could descend into civil war.

These are the conditions that were created by the same mass immigration that Labor is forcing on us.

And while many are quick to note that Australia is somehow different, that “we’re the most successful multicultural nation on earth”, remember that in many ways we’re in an even more precarious situation than many other countries.

Australia has one of the highest foreign-born populations in the world, at around 30 per cent.

Major cities like Sydney and Melbourne are nearing 50 per cent foreign-born.

Per-capita, Australia had a higher immigration intake in 2023 than Britain did.

This has worked up until a point, but to think that Australia is somehow special, and immune from the same problems now taking place in Europe and Britain, is to be hopelessly naive.

What we saw in the recent marches was not the end, it was the beginning.

The beginning of a more British and European style of politics.

Yet while the situation may seem bleak in the short term, amidst the looming turmoil, there is also a reawakening taking place in these countries.

If the conditions are the same as Europe, then the political pushback may be the same too.

Look at France, where Marine Le Pen’s party, headed by the 29-year-old Jordan Bardella, has enjoyed an astronomical rise, nearly taking government last election.

Or Sweden, where the national populist Sweden Democrats went from political outsiders, to governing coalition partners in just a few election cycles.

And Germany, where the nationalist Alternative for Deutschland is now neck-and-neck with the establishment CDU, while increasingly winning the youth vote.

Britain, too, may stave off civil strife with Reform, who is now polling higher than both major parties while campaigning on mass deportations.

And of course America, where, thanks to Donald Trump, the country is set to enjoy a period of net-negative immigration for the first time in many decades.

The success of all of these movements comes from one thing.

A clear, unwavering commitment to ending mass immigration.

History doesn’t repeat, but there are patterns.

The conditions that will make life harder for Australians will also open a space to fundamentally reorient our politics towards being Australia-first again.

These coming years will not be easy for Australians.

But they will also create the space for a new style of politics, so desperately needed down under.

History may well remember August 31, 2025 as the day everything changed in Australia.

Jordan Knight is a journalist and marketing professional. He is the founder of Migration Watch Australia – an organisation campaigning for lower immigration .