An Aussie dad who went viral for his heartfelt plea to reduce immigration on national TV has begun protesting outside the Prime Minister’s holiday home.
Morgan Cox, a father-of-three facing homelessness due to Australia’s housing crisis, set up camp in an old caravan next to the driveway of Anthony Albanese’s $4.3 million mansion in Copacabana, on the NSW Central Coast, on Thursday.
The caravan has a sign on it saying “everyone deserves a home, Albo” and urging Australians to go to a website called Cost of Living Casualties set up to collect accounts from people struggling due to the mass immigration-driven housing and rental crises.
Morgan Cox, who went viral on Q+A for his question on immigration and the housing crisis, is protesting outside the Prime Minister’s $4.6 million holiday house. pic.twitter.com/HgRcOBHHhZ
— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) April 17, 2025
“I am sitting here in a caravan by myself over Easter, instead of with my family, in the desperate hope that the media, the government will listen to us, the millions of suffering Australians,” Mr Cox told Noticer News.
“We’re here on behalf of 3.5 million Australians who are struggling, who are in poverty, (who are) facing homelessness,” Mr Cox said in a video recorded on outside.
“All we want is to be heard, all we want is for politicians to listen to us. Everyone deserves a home Albo.”
He said on X that police confiscated the sign late on Thursday night.
Wow, the gaslighting when it comes to immigration and housing is off the charts.
Check out this excellent question and the shocking responses from tonights Q&A program: pic.twitter.com/5rEik8gFND
— Biko Konstantinos (@BikoKonstantin1) March 10, 2025
Mr Cox’s protest comes a month after he appeared on ABC panel discussion program Q+A where he revealed his family had been hit with a rental increase of almost $10,000 a year and could not find anywhere cheaper to live.
“There’s dozens of people lined up. Lots of them are immigrants, and they have plenty more money than I can possibly get,” he told the panel, which included Health Minister Mark Butler.
“One more rent increase and my family, my one-year-old baby, we’re facing homelessness, and we’ve got nowhere to go.
“Is the government going to cut immigration to match housing availability, or are we just going to keep going until every regular working Australian is homeless?”
Mr Butler responded by claiming that Labor had been “working very hard to get migration levels down”.
About 1.5 million immigrants – more than the population of Adelaide – have arrived in Australia since Mr Albanese won the last federal election in 2022, and during that three-year period Labor has repeatedly exceeded its own overseas net migration forecasts.
Labor has now promised to bring net overseas migration down to 260,000 in the 2025-26 financial year and cap international students at 270,000, while Opposition leader Peter Dutton has said he will cap foreign students at 240,000, bring net migration down to 160,000, and cut permanent migration by 25%.
Mr Dutton made the same commitment to lower net migration by 100,000 after the 2024 Budget, before backflipping and suddenly refusing to commit to the target in December, and last year
He also last year promised to support Labor’s student cap but then blocked it at the last minute, resulting in a record 200,000 international students arriving in February alone.
Header image: Left, Morgan Cox. Right, the protest caravan (Supplied).
