Raising very important points on regions (ignored by urbanistas), independents and elections, plus Australia's irrelevance hiding in the Anglosphere; many regions are now 'news deserts' &/or networked urban RW MSM.
Australian media, since rise of Howard, NewsCorp and 9/11 - Tampa, has been misinforming middle aged and older 'skips', by obsessing about asylum seekers, refugees, borders, immigration and population, based on migration and population data with the 'integrity of custard' (an analyst); symptom of the US anti-immigrant Tanton Network* eg. 'the great replacement', co-authors of fossil Koch-Heritage Project 2025 (locally SusPopAus).
We have inflated population data via NOM net OS migration/border movements due to 2006/7 expansion of the residency test to 12/16+ months (missed by everybody?), sweeps up far more international students, creates short term spikes and inflates estimated population, for media headlines.
A major target of media inc. influencers, are regional voters, like The Voice No campaign, monocultural, less educated, less informed, low info and ageing....
The issue, shared with Brexit and Trump, and the same transnational Anglo players in background, we need forms of immigration to support tax base and budgets for increasing old age dependency ratios (retirees/working age), but they don't think so?
The latter is 'the phenomenon that hath no name' vs dog whistling undefined but temporary resident churn over of 'immigrants' who create 'data noise', but marginal.
Meanwhile our far larger permanent population cohort, dominate many regional electorates, has increasing old age dependency ratios 2000 20%, 2025 30% and 2050 40%+ due to ageing &/or declining fertilty and relatively fewer young people, till 'the great replacement', rebalance, more educated and browner.
The Senior (2023) in captures this moment well, but ignored by most and electoral impacts including skewing,, in
'ABS data shows Australia is ageing, prompting a workforce, retirement and health wakeup call. The Senior's analysis of ABS population data from 1982-2022 shows a growing proportion of people aged 55+ representing the whole population, a shrinking amount of younger people, and a greater proportion of the overall population being eligible for retirement.'
Different electoral dynamics between diverse and younger urban electorates versus monocultural and older regions.
Raising very important points on regions (ignored by urbanistas), independents and elections, plus Australia's irrelevance hiding in the Anglosphere; many regions are now 'news deserts' &/or networked urban RW MSM.
Australian media, since rise of Howard, NewsCorp and 9/11 - Tampa, has been misinforming middle aged and older 'skips', by obsessing about asylum seekers, refugees, borders, immigration and population, based on migration and population data with the 'integrity of custard' (an analyst); symptom of the US anti-immigrant Tanton Network* eg. 'the great replacement', co-authors of fossil Koch-Heritage Project 2025 (locally SusPopAus).
We have inflated population data via NOM net OS migration/border movements due to 2006/7 expansion of the residency test to 12/16+ months (missed by everybody?), sweeps up far more international students, creates short term spikes and inflates estimated population, for media headlines.
A major target of media inc. influencers, are regional voters, like The Voice No campaign, monocultural, less educated, less informed, low info and ageing....
The issue, shared with Brexit and Trump, and the same transnational Anglo players in background, we need forms of immigration to support tax base and budgets for increasing old age dependency ratios (retirees/working age), but they don't think so?
The latter is 'the phenomenon that hath no name' vs dog whistling undefined but temporary resident churn over of 'immigrants' who create 'data noise', but marginal.
Meanwhile our far larger permanent population cohort, dominate many regional electorates, has increasing old age dependency ratios 2000 20%, 2025 30% and 2050 40%+ due to ageing &/or declining fertilty and relatively fewer young people, till 'the great replacement', rebalance, more educated and browner.
The Senior (2023) in captures this moment well, but ignored by most and electoral impacts including skewing,, in
'ABS data shows Australia is ageing, prompting a workforce, retirement and health wakeup call. The Senior's analysis of ABS population data from 1982-2022 shows a growing proportion of people aged 55+ representing the whole population, a shrinking amount of younger people, and a greater proportion of the overall population being eligible for retirement.'
Different electoral dynamics between diverse and younger urban electorates versus monocultural and older regions.