Impact of Net Overseas Migration on Australia: A Detailed Analysis

This report analyzes the multifaceted impacts of net overseas migration on Australia's economy and society. It highlights the significant role of migration in filling job market demands while also addressing the challenges posed by rapid population growth. The report examines the strain on infrastructure, particularly in cities like Sydney and Melbourne, and the subsequent pressure on healthcare services. It discusses the emergence of condensed residential areas for migrants and the potential health risks associated with unhygienic living conditions, leading to increased pressure on public health resources. The report further explores the shift from quality-based to volume-based healthcare, impacting service standards and the financial burden on native Australians seeking quality medical care. The conclusion underscores the need for job-based migration but emphasizes the importance of addressing infrastructural and healthcare capacity to ensure sustainable growth and well-being.

Net Overseas Migration a demanding industry that needs commanding preventive steps
Most of us might have felt it, Traffic Jams and congestion on the roads has become very
common in Sydney and Melbourne. Now comes a question can we connect this condition with
Net Overseas migration in Australia? Let’s check another fact; in the year 2016-17 more than 2
lack sixty thousand overseas migrants submerged into the Australian economy, this is the highest
number of migrants in a year, in the history of Australia. Can we consider it as a wrong practice?
According to the job industry survey done by Chandra Shah and Janine Dixon, Australia will
produce more than 4.1 million jobs in coming five years. The migration is the need of the hour to
fill this demand and supply gap and keep the prices of essential services under control. Proper
Visa policies and practice of rotating employees will further support the industries and service
economies of the Australian cities to keep control over the prices of the services. Migration is the
need of the hour for industries, but we cannot neglect this fact.
Australian cities are overwhelming in terms of carrying capacity. According to the authorities,
cities like Sydney and Melbourne need five more years to develop enough infrastructures to
accommodate migrants. The current scarcity of infrastructure and superstructures that can serve
as the colonies for the migrants is causing an alarming situation. This unexpected rise in the
population is heading towards the condition of condensed residential pockets in the cities.
According to a website called www.macrobusiness.au, in the year 2015 New South Wales
received more than one lakh migrants. This increase in the numbers is exerting strong pressure
on the health service providers in Australia.

Two primary reasons can be attributed to it; first, most of the migrants cannot afford regular
residential facilities and ends up living under unhygienic conditions. Second, Australian health
facilities are designed to serve a steady population sample; they are not able to handle a steep
rise in the number of people in any given area caused by the floating population. This equation
gives us two important findings; the unhygienic conditions in the colonies of migrants are acting
as trigger for many viral diseases. The communication of this viral disease with vulnerable
Australian population is increasing the overall number of the patients and exerting pressure on
medical service providers.
In order to meet out this condition, many local health units of Australia have changed the gears,
instead of providing “Quality Care” now they are focusing more on “Volume-based care” for the
patients.
The concept of Volume-based care brings down the standards of services quite considerably, this
is why next time when you see a jam on a busy road of Melbourne, think about traffic Jam which
is taking place in the health units of the same city. Local Australian residents want “quality-
based health care services” because of their hygienic living standards; most of them are ending
up paying more for these services in private hospitals and other such places.
On the line of summation, we can say that Australian job market is in a grave need of job-based
migration, however, cities of Australia and particularly the public health care sector is not in a
position to entertain this crowd. The emergence of condensed “residential pockets” inhabited by
migrants is becoming a host of serious diseases that are viral in nature. The native Australian
population is paying a heavy price for the medical facilities because they are accustomed to
“Quality-based health care services.”