Why are Australia's immigration levels so high when they are disadvantageous to the existing population?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote*:

The ideas of the ruling class are, in any age, the ruling ideas

This is an obvious idea when you think about it. However, it is easily lost on those who do not realise who the ruling class is, or who significantly mischaracterise them. Of course, there is no 'ruling class' that can easily be identified as in the days of royalty. In modern democracies the 'ruling class' is a loose-knit conglomerate who exercise their power through the the mass media and finance (party donations, investment decisions, kickbacks, etc.).

The ruling class of Australia are pro-mass immigration. Anyone who supports the ideology that supports mass immigration are pro-ruling class. This includes those who identify as 'Far Left'**. The various elite benefit through mass immigration in several ways:

• Governments: more people means more taxes, which makes the revenue side of the budget look good (the liability side is ignored). Governments can also say they created more jobs, despite the unemployment rate remaining stagnant or going higher, as many of those jobs went to migrants.
• Consumer goods: Harvey Norman, Coles, Woolworths, etc. all benefit from increased demand for their goods
• Banks and other financial institutions: more people to lend to means more profits
• Universities and RTOs: universities are highly dependent on foreign students to survive. They are a means for foreigners to maintain visas and a popular pathway to Australian citizenship, so universities and most of their staff are pro-mass immigration.
• Migrant rent seeking business: visa and settlement services, ESL, and other social services extract rents from government and taxpayer. They call this 'compassion.'

With so many powerful beneficiaries of mass immigration, it is less wonder why those who want a lower immigration, sustainable future are marginalised. The ideas of the ruling class are, in any age, the ruling ideas.

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*I am not a Marxist! Socialism was the greatest disaster of the last millennium. I am pro-market, NOT pro-corporatism, rent-seeking, crony capitalism.

**The labels Left and Right are very misleading when it comes to immigration. Many on the supposed 'Right' are anti-immigration, and many on the 'Left' are pro mass immigration. The real difference is in class: the upper-middle and upper class are generally pro-immigration, regardless of whether they are socially Left or Right. Those on the 'Far Left' and some of the 'Centre-Left' and 'Centre-Right' are ignorantly pro-mass immigration due to the misguided, virtue-signaling politics of identity - despite the only beneficiaries being the capitalist elite.