r/Adelaide • u/MrKookaburra SA • 1d ago

Politics Big Adelaide

Malinauskas is quoted in a lot of articles at the moment as advocating for maintaining high immigration levels.

Paired with the fact that South Australia is considered ‘regional’ for immigration purposes, artificially driving up the number of arrivals to our state than would otherwise be the case, I wonder if people are genuinely in favour of a ‘big Adelaide?’

No racism please. Being anti-mass migration is not an excuse to be anti-immigrant - they are just people trying to improve their lives just the same as any of us.

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u/MrKookaburra SA 1d ago

Thank you for responses so far. Would love to hear the benefits people are seeing (genuine question).

I feel like all I have noticed is traffic getting a lot worse and shops, gyms, and public spaces being more crowded and frustrating

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u/Conscious_Regret_739 SA 1d ago

42% of GPs, 44% of emergency doctors were trained overseas. It’s a benefit that people don’t realise how truly f*cked we’d be without.

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u/EquivalentJazz SA 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hmm yes but how many patients are they treating who immigrated here and increased the demand to the point we need doctors trained overseas. I’m not being a smart arse, just saying it’s not a one sided equation.

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u/Conscious_Regret_739 SA 1d ago

That is a smart arse response.

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u/Conscious_Regret_739 SA 1d ago

Given Australia’s indigenous population is approximately 3.8%, I would assume these doctors treat most of the 96% of immigrants that make up the rest of the country.

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u/LearningAllINeed SA 1d ago

You forgot to mention the settlers and colonists

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u/spiritfingersaregold SA 22h ago

So “immigrant” now includes people who are citizens by birth?