The numbers are out of control. The standards have collapsed.
Australia is importing people at more than double the rate that built this country and it's crushing housing affordability, overwhelming hospitals and schools, and fracturing social cohesion. These were deliberate policy choices that put the interests of developers, university bosses, and cheap labour ahead of Australian families.
Australia is now running at more than double the historic half-percent norm. Net Overseas Migration (NOM) hit 1.107% of Australia's population in 2024–25. That's 305,569 extra people in one year. 837 new arrivals every single day fighting for the same houses, roads, and services you rely on.
Parliament has lost control. Bureaucrats and vested interests are deciding Australia's future without your consent. It's time to take it back. Join the thousands of Australians who refuse to watch our country be transformed without a say.
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To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives, and to the President and Senators of the Senate in Parliament assembled:
We, the undersigned citizens and residents of the Commonwealth of Australia, say that Australia’s immigration intake has been too high for too long. The standards governing who is admitted and on what terms have been too low. Excessive net overseas migration has placed unsustainable pressure on housing, infrastructure, essential services, and social cohesion. The migration system has become insufficiently selective and has failed to serve the national interest.
We therefore ask the Parliament to:
This petition is a direct public call for Parliament to cut the numbers, lift the standards, and restore control. A strong signature count makes it impossible for Canberra to ignore.
By signing, you support SBSI's call for immigration reform that prioritises national capacity, higher standards, stronger enforcement, and social cohesion.
Immigration policy must serve the Australian people and the national interest. For most of the period from 1972 to 2006, net overseas migration averaged roughly half a percent of population. That was the disciplined, sustainable approach that allowed Australia to grow without sacrificing housing affordability, infrastructure capacity, or social cohesion.
We have abandoned that discipline. The result is a system that has become too large, too loose, and too disconnected from the country’s real capacity to house, serve, and absorb new arrivals.
When migration exceeds national capacity, the consequences are not theoretical. They are visible in the daily lives of ordinary Australians:
This is why the SBSI campaign is not anti-migrant. It is pro-Australia.
A serious country sets limits. It enforces standards. It expects migration policy to serve the nation — not overwhelm it.
Equivalent to about 837 additional people every day.
That is more than double a 0.5% population-based cap.
Across that period, NOM averaged roughly half a percent of population.
Using the 2025 population, that would be around 378 net additions each day.
The chart below shows the break from the old half-percent norm to a much higher modern intake. The dotted rule marks the SBSI benchmark of 0.5%.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
This is the central point of the campaign: Australia has moved from a disciplined migration norm to an intake that often approaches or exceeds one percent of population.
That is roughly the historical population-share norm that prevailed before the step-up in the late 2000s.
Across the later period, the average was materially higher — and the post-pandemic spike was far higher still.
The recent peak was not a marginal variation. It was a major departure from the long-run historical pattern.
Measured in people rather than population share, the same pattern appears: a sharp lift in the modern era, culminating in the extraordinary post-pandemic spike. The bars are coloured by whether Labor or Liberal was in government.
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
SBSI is not asking for drift, spin, or cosmetic adjustment. It is asking Parliament to legislate a rule that restores discipline to migration policy.
That is the population base used to calculate a contemporary 0.5% cap.
That would be a controlled annual ceiling — around 378 net additions per day rather than 837.
That is the difference between current NOM and a half-percent cap using the 2025 population.
This campaign is not a complaint without a remedy.
It is a concrete national demand for an immediate reset of Australia’s immigration system, including a binding cap that returns net overseas migration to no more than 0.5% of Australia’s population each year.
Parliament has a choice: continue the current policy of drift and denial, or deliver the disciplined, nation-first system Australians deserve.
Substantially reduce net overseas migration and legislate a clear, binding rule that keeps it at no more than 0.5% of Australia’s population each year. No more record-breaking intakes. No more excuses.
Strengthen security screening, character requirements, visa compliance, and enforcement across the entire system. Weak standards have undermined public trust. That ends now.
Prioritise migrants who make a clear and lasting economic, civic, and social contribution to Australia. Migration must serve the national interest not the other way around.
Set migration levels with explicit regard to housing completions, infrastructure, and service delivery. Australia’s population growth must never again outrun our ability to house and serve our people.
Scale back the sprawling temporary migration system that has become a major backdoor driver of population pressure. Temporary visas must be temporary not a permanent workaround.
Make migration policy fully accountable to the national interest, not to bureaucratic drift or political evasion. Australians have lost faith in the system. Parliament must earn it back.