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‘Australia’s going to be an Asian country’
Topic Started: 31 Aug 2017, 07:47 PM (802 Views)
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‘Australia’s going to be an Asian country’

BILLIONAIRE retailer Gerry Harvey has predicted Australia will become an “Asian country” with a population of 100 million in the next century, saying there is “not a chance in hell” immigration can be dialled back.

Earlier this month, outspoken entrepreneur Dick Smith launched a $1 million anti-immigration ad, calling for Australia’s net migration intake to be scaled back from its current level 210,000 people a year to its historical average of 70,000.

Mr Smith joined a growing number of commentators, economists and politicians blaming “unsustainable” record high immigration for declining living standards and skyrocketing house prices, with retailers such as Harvey Norman accused of pushing a “pro-growth” agenda.

Mr Harvey, speaking to news.com.au as the furniture and electrical goods retailer announced a record full-year profit, said he had “always held the same view” that Australia was a “great big place and no one lives here”.

“If I was God and I looked down on the Earth, I would see 1.3 billion Indians, 1.4 billion Chinese, 240 million Indonesians, these great big continents, America, Europe, and one funny little country, Australia,” he said.

“It’s not possible you can maintain a population of 25 to 30 million people. In 100 years from now Australia will have a population of 50 to 100 million people. That’s going to happen regardless of what Dick Smith thinks, I think or you think, it’s just inevitable.

“The people that exist today, me and you, we all have our view, but we’ll be long gone.”

Mr Harvey said immigration and population growth were impossible to control.

“The problem is you can’t control it,” he said. “The rest of the world at some stage is not going to let you control it. Sometimes when you smell the inevitable you’ve got to go along with it.

“You’re going to come under immense pressure, it may be like boat people coming in huge numbers. It’s a utopian idea that some people have, in a lot of ways I can see the worth of it, but will you ever be able to hold it to some number under 25 to 30 million? Not a chance in hell.

“It was obvious to me [since] university. Australia is going to become an Asian country, 100 per cent for sure. It’s just a matter of when. You might have close to four billion Asians in the world, where do you think they’re going to live?”

On Thursday, Harvey Norman announced its best ever full-year result in the company’s 35-year history, delivering a profit of $448.98 million in the year to June 30, a 29 per cent increase on the previous year.

Harvey Norman said the result was partly due to strong retail spending, particularly in NSW and Victoria, underpinned by “strong housing sector activity, lower levels in unemployment, a net increase in overseas migration, and the wealth flow-on effect from higher home prices”.

Franchisee sales revenue of its three Australia and New Zealand brands — Harvey Norman, Domayne and Joyce Mayne — was $5.62 billion in the year to June 30, up 5.4 per cent on the prior year.

“They’re buying right across the board,” Mr Harvey said. “Bedding, furniture, electrical, computers, carpets, home improvement. What tends to happen is you’ll bring out a new TV, a curved TV, it’s the hot line, so consequently TV sales shoot up in that period.

“So we’re always looking for that new product, be it a computer, TV, refrigerator, even fabric on the lounge. There’s always something coming onto the market accelerating sales, we want to be the one that hits that hard.”

Revenue from company-owned overseas stores in Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Slovenia and Croatia rose 2.1 per cent to $1.83 billion, while the final dividend is 26 cents, fully franked, down four cents on last year.

Mr Harvey said the goal was for the company to be making 25 per cent of its profit overseas within three to five years, highlighting the success of Harvey Norman’s new “flagship” store format currently rolling out in the major capitals.

“The first one opened in Singapore a year and a half ago, the sales in that store have been the best in the world,” he said. “It suddenly became our number one store. Everyone that’s been in there has said, in terms of homemaker goods, furniture and electrical, it’s the best store in the world.”

The first Australian location at Auburn is set to open in October.

“You should be able to go into that in a couple of months and say, ‘Wow, I haven’t seen anything as good as this in Australia.’ That’s our answer to our critics,” Mr Harvey said.

“There was a whole heap of talk here about the time of the GFC about the internet, people buying online, the demise of people like Harvey Norman. That talk now though has totally dried up, especially when we put out results like we’re putting out at the moment.

“There are many analysts and journos all sprouting the same line, that we’re dinosaurs, but the truth is something totally different. If you start peddling that line you just look stupid. We’re the leader of the pack, we don’t see anyone out there in the world doing a better job than us.”

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/australias-going-to-be-an-asian-country-gerry-harvey-says-immigration-cant-be-stopped/news-story/84daa2cf74c10dacc56ac88701d244b9
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Hand the country back to the Aboriginals and let them set the immigration policy.
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hidflect
1 Sep 2017, 12:12 AM
Hand the country back to the Aboriginals and let them set the immigration policy.
Some would favour it and some wouldn't is me personal suspicion ... Not all that much diff ta tha rest of us; Just depending on their personal hopes 'n experiences 'n values I fully expect.
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hidflect
1 Sep 2017, 12:12 AM
Hand the country back to the Aboriginals and let them set the immigration policy.
I can tell you the result of that would be extremely predictable. They would be ultra racist, they would reject everything euro and Asian and lean heavily towards what's familiar such as TSI, islanders and African migrants.

They will gravitate towards what's familiar which we will accept as 'natural' but white peoples have been shit smeared throughout history for doing the same hahahahaha, suck eggs whites 😄😄
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Chris
1 Sep 2017, 08:07 AM
I can tell you the result of that would be extremely predictable. They would be ultra racist, they would reject everything euro and Asian and lean heavily towards what's familiar such as TSI, islanders and African migrants.

They will gravitate towards what's familiar which we will accept as 'natural' but white peoples have been shit smeared throughout history for doing the same hahahahaha, suck eggs whites 😄😄
I lived and worked amongst ATSI folk for quite a few years Chris. With one of my personal observations of them being if you got 6 different 'blackfellahs' in a room chatting about some issue, you were likely to get at least 8 different opinions being expressed.

Was even actually privy to what I found to be an interesting conversation amongst a few of them on housing once - With opinions ranging from "The government owes it to us to give us free housing" to "F*** that; We're as good as them (as in 'whitefellahs') and can work and buy our own houses the same as them."

Hmmm - Pretty much every time you open your mouth, you just seem to manage to make yourself sound (to me at least), to be ever more increasingly stupid and genuinely limited in your take on pretty much everything Chris.

Now don't get me wrong, I surely know and admit that genuine racism and xenophobia exists amongst many, many peoples.

And can even understand the underlying reasons for it in various specific cases I've come across - Including stuff like "Those f***ers killed 19 (or whatever) of me family in tha last war; So the only good one of them is a dead one!"

But I've also observed that amongst many (though certainly not all) of even the apparent 'hardliners' in such circumstances, there's at least some sort of deep seated genuine desire to be able to get along with those they obviously feel compelled to genuinely hate - For reasons that I'd maybe judge to be understandable; Tho in other cases, rather less so.

But anyway, for the sake of Homo sapiens as a species, my personal thought is that the best overall way forward long term is just going to be to continue to tap into all and any potential 'let's get along' attitudes as opposed to stirring up and supporting all the potential for divisions and strife.

But hey, I'm just basically a Pacifist I suppose; And just not especially a Nationalist.
Edited by herbie, 1 Sep 2017, 10:36 AM.
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1 Sep 2017, 08:59 AM
I lived and worked amongst ATSI folk for quite a few years Chris. With one of my personal observations of them being if you got 6 different 'blackfellahs' in a room chatting about some issue, you were likely to get at least 8 different opinions being expressed.

Was even actually privy to what I found to be an interesting conversation amongst a few of them on housing once - With opinions ranging from "The government owes it to us to give us free housing" to "F*** that; We're as good as them (as in 'whitefellahs') and can work and buy our own houses the same as them."

Hmmm - Pretty much every time you open your mouth, you just seem to manage to make yourself sound (to me at least), to be ever more increasingly stupid and genuinely limited in your take on pretty much everything Chris.

Now don't get me wrong, I surely know and admit that genuine racism and xenophobia exists amongst many, many peoples.

And can even understand the underlying reasons for it in various specific cases I've come across - Including stuff like "Those f***ers killed 19 (or whatever) of me family in tha last war; So the only good one of them is a dead one!"

But I've also observed that amongst many (though certainly not all) of even the apparent 'hardliners' in such circumstances, there's at least some sort of deep seated genuine desire to be able to get along with those they obviously feel compelled to genuinely hate - For reasons that I'd maybe judge to be understandable; Tho in other cases, rather less so.

But anyway, for the sake of Homo sapiens as a species, my personal thought is that the best overall way forward long term is just going to be to continue to tap into all and any potential 'let's get along' attitudes as opposed to stirring up and supporting all the potential for divisions and strife.

But hey, I'm just basically a Pacifist I suppose; And just not especially a Nationalist.
Bump for Chris.
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Gerry Harvey is just being Captain Obvious.
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1 Sep 2017, 03:05 PM
Gerry Harvey is just being Captain Obvious.
Chris is a f***ing coward - Balls tha size of grape seeds; More than happy to beat up on ATSI people (as well as others) - Just a genuine all round hater in fact. Without ever having any pure data to back his opinions even it seems? Nah, f*** Chris for mine.

With that apparently being the attitude his olds have adopted towards him - With me fully concurring in their having adopted that attitude to their Chris.

Hmmm - I'd have to do the same I suspect? With him just obviously being a totally irretrievable, irredeemably worthless piece of shit.
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