2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
You can't hide from the truth, man.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
I believe it, man.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
I bought my first unit in Cronulla in Sydney when I was like 21.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
It was a one-bedroom studio apartment for $240,000 in Cronulla.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
Like, I mean, 70 meters from northeast front door.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
So it's on the north side of the bottom of the Kingsway.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
So it's on Allura Road.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
I was down there yesterday, actually.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
I caught up with a couple of mates that I know from Cronulla, the Greek family down there, great people.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
It just blows my mind how much has changed in such a small amount of time.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
The good thing that I love about Cronulla, it's one of the last sort of Australian real deal Aussie areas.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
Like there's obviously influences down there too, different cultures and stuff like that.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
But at its core, it's still that Aussie trading, surfer, business operators, that kind of thing, which I love.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
And Cronulla is probably the only place outside of where I grew up that I would call home.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
Well, mate, they're taking away the whole virtue of trying to get ahead.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
Just recent, and people can quote me, I'm probably wrong, but there's X amount of visa holders in this country right now, and whoever's going to give them the citizenship, which obviously would be the government in power at the time, which way are the votes going to go?
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
And you and I talked about it this morning, and I'm no mathematician, but you can just look at the statistics.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
And once you have a certain tipping point, you can't come back from that.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
And that's like with the UK at the moment.
2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future
All that happens is you get these people from shitholes around the other places in the world, and they come over here.