Welcome With Room To Breathe - Keeping Australia Liveable

I love this country. The light. The humour. The way a stranger will hold a door and mean it. We’ve been built by people who came from everywhere, and I’m grateful for that. My gripe isn’t who comes; it’s how many, how fast, and whether anyone’s built the bloody houses. Compassion without capacity isn’t kindness; it’s chaos with a smile.

Right now, Australians feel it in the quiet places. Rents that sprint while wages jog. Inspections with eighty people on the footpath and two minutes to “fall in love with” a shoebox. Trains that arrive full and leave fuller. ED wait times that could binge a whole series. Decent people—local and newly arrived—competing for the same basic things. That tension isn’t about race; it’s a maths problem we’re losing.

Australia’s at its best when we pair welcome with nation-building: homes, rails, schools, time to integrate. Lately we’ve flipped the order: welcome first, plan later. The bill shows up everywhere—at the kitchen table, at the bowser, in the tightness across a parent’s shoulders. If you’re feeling that squeeze, it isn’t because your neighbour speaks another language. It’s because we invited more people than we made room for. That’s not compassion; that’s congestion.

I’m not angry; I’m concerned—and hopeful. Because this is fixable. It just needs grown-up sequencing.

1) Tie intake to capacity (not vibes)
Run an independent, transparent audit every 6–12 months: how many homes, classrooms, hospital beds and train seats can we add, really? That number becomes the ceiling, not a suggestion. If we’re not building it, we’re not bringing it. Not as punishment. As prudence. (And yes, I know prudence isn’t sexy. Neither is sleeping in your car because the rental market’s cooked.)

We can’t run “Big Australia” on Blu Tack and good intentions. You don’t invite an extra hundred to dinner and then serve two-minute noodles and hope.

2) Build like we mean it
Unlock medium density near stations, not just megatowers in places no one can reach. Fast-track approvals that add supply where the pipes already are. Cut the nonsense that lets bad projects sprawl without transport—because a new estate without buses is just cardio in disguise.

Stop treating every crane like a war crime. If we want homes, we need… homes. Not brochures.

3) Reduce the squeeze first
When we do invite people in, prioritise bottleneck skills: nurses, sparkies, builders, teachers, aged-care workers. Done right, migration relieves pressure instead of adding to it. That turns a demand shock into part of the solution. If we keep importing demand without importing the people who fix the system, we’re basically watering the house fire.

Bring in the people who can keep the lights on—not just more people to fight for the last park at Coles.

4) Tell the truth people can feel
Headline GDP doesn’t help at the checkout. Publish the per-person results—housing affordability, commute times, hospital waits—so policy gets judged by what families actually live through. If a bigger pie means thinner slices, say it out loud and fix the oven, not the spin.

Bigger numbers don’t tuck your kids in. Per capita, or it didn’t happen. This is not about race. It’s about dignity.

People of every heritage make this place sing. That’s exactly why sequence matters. If we keep smashing the accelerator while the wheels are wobbling, everyone loses—old Aussies, new Aussies, future Aussies. Compassion without capacity pits neighbour against neighbour and lets grifters blame the people at the bottom of the waiting list for the decisions made at the top.

If you want a glimpse of what happens when systems get overwhelmed, look at parts of the U.S.: big inflows, not enough beds or buses, city budgets bending under emergency accommodation, politics turning loud and cruel. I don’t want the shouting match here. I want a plan that lets us stay kind.

What a kinder plan sounds like

• Capacity-linked intake. If we’re adding 100,000 beds and dwellings this year, that’s our intake runway.
• Housing where people actually live their lives. Near transport, jobs, schools—so a nurse, a tradie, a new grad and a new arrival can all afford to be within reach of work.
• Skills that de-stress the system. Builders building, teachers teaching, carers caring.
• Honest dashboards. If rent, waits and travel times are going the wrong way, we adjust the tap now, not after the next election.

And no, this isn’t an argument for zero migration. Australia without migration wouldn’t be Australia. The ask is modest: match compassion with capacity. A steady flow we can house, move, teach and treat. That’s how you keep the door open and the house in order.

If you’re in government, please resist the sugar hit of big numbers and glossy speeches. If you’re in business, help build the homes your future staff will live in. If you’re a voter, demand honesty that doesn’t fit on a billboard. We all have a part to play.

I love this country. I want it to stay the place where a brickie, a nurse, a fresh grad and a new family can all find a home that isn’t a moon-priced shoebox. We can say, “You’re welcome here,” and also say, “We made room.” We can keep the door open and the lights on. That’s not small; that’s nation-building.

Kindness with a floor plan, not kindness with a fuck-it, we’ll see. That’s the difference between a welcome and a shambles.

Here's a lighthearted take on this very topic.

Author: Master Yoda
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