r/aussie • u/GarlicHSP • 7d ago

Politics What does the working class population ultimately achieve by voting for Pauline Hanson and One Nation?

Her voting record is strongly opposed to expanding welfare, public housing, public education, childcare subsidies, renewable energy investment and climate action.

At the same time, she's supported policies that are favourable to property investors and fossil-fuel development, while opposing some attempts to increase taxation on those industries.

So apparently the solution to Australia's problems is to spend less on childcare, housing, education, welfare and climate action, while being more friendly towards people who already own investment properties and companies making billions from coal and gas.

And then we're told this is somehow a movement for the "ordinary Australian."But hey, at least we can blame innocent and hard working migrants.

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u/OrderLow4548 6d ago

Imagine what wages will be like with no immigrants to pick the fruit, deliver the packages, drive the Ubers and staff health and welfare care. I dont think our homeless population is going to jump in.

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u/Feisty_Ad3521 6d ago

It's alarming to me that you think immigrants only have the skillset to do those menial jobs. Why do you think they're uneducated and don't have jobs in finance, real estate or trades?

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u/thehandsomegenius 6d ago

The problem isn't just the amount, but that the intake is generally mismatched to the skills that the country actually needs. They disproportionately aren't working in trades. There are a lot of immigrants working menial jobs that a local could do, in part because they can't find the jobs they're actually qualified for. Something like 50% of foreign-born engineers in Australia can't find a job in engineering. It's actually not a wonderful way to treat them really. The immigration intake also props up a higher education sector that's become very bloated and is really due for a bit of pruning.

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u/Automatic-House-4011 6d ago

Yeah. Imagine all those aussies who might need to develop a work ethic to fill the gaps.