The March for Australia rolls out with its banners, its slogans, its headline demand: End immigration. That’s the hill they’ve chosen to die on. Shut the gates. Seal the borders. Keep “Australia” locked in some imaginary time capsule.
But let’s get real. If “ending immigration” is your whole agenda, then you don’t have a vision — you’ve got a fear. Immigration isn’t some add-on to Australia. It is Australia. It’s the people who stacked the bricks, harvested the food, cleaned the wards, drove the cabs, built the suburbs, and kept the damn engine running. Stop immigration, and you don’t save the nation — you suffocate it.
The Pre-emptive Retorts
“But they’re stealing our jobs!”
No, they’re not. They’re filling jobs most Australians don’t want. Fruit picking. Aged care. Night shifts that keep the city ticking. Without migrants, industries collapse. You think your grocery bill is high now? Wait until there’s no one left to harvest the food.
“But they don’t assimilate!”
Really? Look around. The food you eat, the music you listen to, the suburbs you live in — all shaped by migration. The only thing that doesn’t “assimilate” is nostalgia for a whitewashed Australia that never actually existed.
“But immigration is why housing’s unaffordable!”
Wrong target. Housing’s cooked because governments sold planning to developers and treated shelter like a stock market. Immigration is the scapegoat because it’s easier than pointing at greed, bad policy, and politicians with mates in real estate.
“But we need to protect our culture!”
Which culture? The beer ads from the 1980s? The fantasy that “Australian values” are fragile porcelain that shatter if someone speaks another language in the supermarket? Real culture isn’t that weak. It adapts. It absorbs. It grows.
The Real Motives
So why push end immigration as the big idea? Because it’s easy. Because it gives angry people a villain. Because it distracts from the hard questions — wages, corruption, climate, housing, health. It’s a smokescreen.
If the march was honest, the banner wouldn’t say End immigration. It would say We’re scared of change. It would say We want someone to blame.
The Consequences
If they ever got their way, what’s next? A shrinking workforce. An aging population with nobody left to care for them. A tanking economy. Empty lecture halls. A culture that calcifies into nostalgia while the rest of the world moves on. Australia would be preserved, alright — preserved like a fossil.
The Bottom Line
So what is an Aussie? Is it someone who locks the doors and shrinks into the past, or someone who can stand the heat of change and still get up the next morning to build something better?
The March for Australia wants you to believe stopping immigration will “save” this country. But save it for who? And save it from what? You can’t march a nation backwards without destroying it in the process.
And if your definition of “Aussie” is so fragile it collapses the second someone new arrives, then maybe the problem isn’t immigration. Maybe the problem is you.
– The Hollow Centre
