Can we encourage migrants out of crowded cities? Australia 2050 (part 3) | 7.30

As well as making regional towns attractive for migrants, why not also make them attractive for existing citizens.

What kind of jobs? Opening a coffee shop, McDonald's, Kmart in a new suburb won't create wealth. You need a real manufacturing industry that can export overseas.

Stop thinking about how to encourage migrants out of crowded cities, think about how to encourage all people living in Australia, no matter local or migrants, out of crowded cities. All human beings want to pursue the same thing - A better life. If regional places are better, people will not hesitate to leave the city. STOP BLAMING MIGRANTS because of the GOVERNMENT'S INCOMPETENCE. We, migrants, are invited by the government. I want to say what is critical is WE NEED MORE PIONEERS. To do so we need more government stimulation. To simply cut the immigration number is not the solution because regional areas will still not be developed. The government always have the right to cut the immigration number, but after inviting all the immigration to Australia to fix the population problem and then blame migrants for the crowded city is irresponsible. Migrants have nothing to blame. They are just like local Australians. Blame your migration policy and please fix it if it went wrong.

Obviously, the problem we are having now isn't immigration. Even we stop any migrants coming in right now, major cities are still over crowded. The plan of developing regional areas with details, announced by the government, should be our solution of over-glowing population. And just like the video said, even though we settle migrants into regional areas, they will still go to the cities. We need to develop those areas in order to make them stay. I thought Australia is an open, multicultural country, and now look at the comments here. It is filled with white supremacism and patriotism.

'Look at all these migration success stories' They're speaking English and they were explicitly told by their families to BE AUSTRALIAN. The problem with current immigration is that they're not integrating, In south-west Victoria, its common to see road signs in Chinese, real estate agencies that specifically target the Chinese market (they dont advertise in English) All Asian people live in overcrowded share houses unless they're the successful types, they work for less than minimum wage, which steals jobs from Australians. Australia hasnt even started future proofing our existing populations employment situation, let alone millions of UNEDUCATED migrants. FIX OUR ENERGY, WATER, WAGES, HEALTHCARE, HOUSING, LESS IMMIGRATION.

The one question no one is asking. Why does our population need to " GROW" There is no shortage of people for jobs. Only a shortage of people willing to do low income jobs. So instead of eliminating these jobs , we import people from 3rd world countries willing to do them. Ain't that the truth!

To be frank people don’t immigrate here to become farmers

If there were diverse job opportunities in regional areas you wouldn't need to encourage migrants to go there, locals would go.

The real problem is greedy businessman. Not immigrants.

Australia has to build medium sized cities other than Sydney and Melbourne, and create jobs there so that people can work and live there for long term, which also contributes to the growth of our economy. There are 100 cities in the US and 10-20 cities in Canada, population spreads across different parts of the country rather than concentrating in one or two major cities like what happens here in Australia. Federal government encourages people to relocate to rural towns but where are the jobs and facilities there? Without all that even if you force people to live there for 3-5 years, they will go back to big cities after the period is over. The other way is to build high speed rail to connect small towns to the big cities so that people can cut down travel time by 80% while living 200-300 km away. Cutting down immigration intake is a very negative approach and it won't work for the long term. While Australia reduces immigration intake from 190k to 160k per year, Canada has increase theirs from 330k top 360k per year for the next 5 years.

they should start accepting convicts from the UK again. We got some great ones that'll fit right in.

1976 was telling us something. That there was enough of us. The earth is struggling and we want more people? Makes no sense.

By the definition of insanity, Scott Morrison is continuing to do what has failed for 70 years - trying to keep new migrants in regional areas. How about considering what other successful nations have done. 1. Make regional areas more attractive (sporting facilities, events, government offices, infrastructure, schools ) 2. Provide employers with financial incentives for opening offices regionally (special economic zones) 3. Provide people with advantageous housing benefits for building houses regionally. It’s not rocket science you know.

The Chinese got rich by reducing their fertility and avoiding taking migrants at all.

No effort has been made to resettle or employ a generation of lost Australian youth.

We've doubled our immigration in the last decade. There's not a new job for every immigrant; so more jobs go wanting which forces down wages, which increases investor wealth. We don't increase government expenditure proportionally to the increase in population. And our infrastructure doesn't increase with the increase in population - with water being a prime example. Our roads aren't all now twice as wide as they were 2 decades ago when our population was half the current size. The population spike also raises the demand for everything including housing. So prices have shot up which again raises investor wealth and makes Gina Reinhardt happy. Shes says she hopes that the Australian poor will be happy with $2 a day wages. She, and many other investors, are the backers behind the Liberal Party in Australia. It's the Liberal Party who have increased the immigration intake dramatically. They don't care about the poor. Or the environment. They care about becoming wealthier. Australia is becoming a mini USA. A lower immigration rate will also reduce tensions between immigrants and the rest of the population. I don't want to have a country where there's racial and religious vilification.

I lived in Australia I returned back to Africa,

The question should be can we encourage migrants out of Australia?

We Definitely need to go back to this concept. We have too many ethnic enclaves Little China, Little Thailand, Little India in Parramatta etc - We need everyone to become Australians. Whites mixing with Indians Chinese Mixing with Indians Greeks etc. That's not happening in the Big Cities !

I like how these immigrants were all speaking English, showing that they are fully integrated into their community and how the community has welcomed them. Very different to the US.