New immigration data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has just been released, and it’s confirmed what many Australians already knew.
Labor is well and truly pushing ahead with its mass immigration program, despite every single warning alarm screaming for it to stop.
The newly publicly available data, released on Friday, shows that 568,000 migrants moved to Australia in the 2024-25 financial year.
In net terms, that means Australia’s net migration sits at 306,000 for the last financial year.
That’s roughly 70,000 higher than pre-COVID levels.
That is despite a record housing crisis, cost-of-living crisis, worsening ambulance ramping, flat wages, social tensions, and rapid demographic change.
But more than that, this release comes in the wake of the Bondi terror attack, which left 15 dead, dozens injured, a nation enraged and grieving, and endless questions unanswered.
One of the shooters was a first-generation migrant, the second – his son – was a second-generation migrant who grew up in Australia.
Many are rightly asking who will be held to account for this obvious failure of immigration and assimilation, which allowed hate to come here and fester in our communities.
Many are also rightly questioning the apparent open-door policy of successive governments.
Yet mass immigration persists.
What’s more, immigration from countries with little in common with Australia, with distinct differences in culture, customs and laws – like those the Bondi killer came from – continues.
A Resolve Monitor poll shows 54% of Australians want immigration to focus on ‘alike’ countries, with similar customs, laws, and languages.
The horrific events in Bondi combined with Labor’s continued commitment to mass immigration now threaten to dislodge Labor and Anthony Albanese’s once-firm position in the polls.
This perhaps explains why Labor stubbornly refuses to cut immigration, given that migrants tend to vote for Labor once they become citizens.
It may also explain Labor’s bizarre focus on guns rather than the obvious failures of assimilation and immigration, and the rise of hate in response to Bondi’s terror attack.
Continued mass immigration at this scale means that it’s even harder to assimilate new migrants into mainstream Australian society, further risking the creation and proliferation of parallel societies on our shores.
These parallel societies allow radicalism and hatred to grow.
While net immigration is dropping, it’s still extremely high, especially in the middle of a housing crisis, and while social and cultural tensions are high.
Labor has effectively guaranteed that the housing crisis will continue to worsen, inflation-driven interest rates will remain high, and social tensions will get worse.
While Australians are crying out for a pause on immigration, the Labor government has betrayed their promises to bring it to a more sustainable level.
This will likely be the major issue of Australian politics in 2026.
First published in SkyNews Australia 22 December 2025 as “Fresh data just days after Bondi attack shows immigration still well above pre-COVID levels as Australians ‘cry out’ for pause on new arrivals” © Jordan Knight 2025. All Rights Reserved.
