A Spectator Australia piece on Tony Burke’s migration interview has exposed the great Labor delusion: Australia can import its way out of the problems mass migration helped create.

Tony Burke has given Australians a rare gift.

He told them what Labor really thinks.

Burke went viral for his interview on the The Pawan Luthra Podcast, where the Immigration Minister tried to defend Labor’s migration agenda while accidentally exposing its fatal flaw.

Burke said: 

“We can’t run our health system or build the houses that we need without immigration now.”

Read that again.

After years of record migration, crushed housing supply, packed roads, crowded hospitals and collapsing living standards, Labor’s answer is more of the same. More demand. More people competing for homes, services and wages.

And then they call it a solution.

Burke went even further, saying there is:

“... not a single hospital that you could run in Australia without people who are on visas. Not one.”

That is almost certainly true, and it’s a startling admission of failure.

A serious country trains its own nurses, doctors, tradies and engineers. A serious government builds capacity at home. Labor has spent years using immigration as a lazy substitute for planning, productivity, and nation-building.

Now Australians are told they must accept permanent population pressure because the system has become dependent on it.

Reporting on the interview, Spectator Australia asks the question Labor refuses to face: what happens to a nation when the people are never consulted, the cities are transformed around them, and the social contract is rewritten by bureaucrats?

Burke’s answer is to accuse critics of blame and division.

According to him, it’s not divisive when you introduce mass migration, only when you notice the mass migration.

But Australians are not wrong to care about housing. They are not wrong to care about congestion. They are not wrong to care about culture, community, security, and whether their children will ever own a home.

Mass migration is, frankly, a business model.

It props up universities, big business and government GDP figures while ordinary Australians pay the price.

Labor has broken the system.

And Burke simply does not care what you think about it.