The lies driving Big Australia (members)

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By Leith van Onselen

Business Spectator’s Rob Burgess published another nice spruik for a “Big Australia” over the weekend, arguing that lowering Australia’s high skilled migration intake would cripple the economy:

Angela Chan, national president of the Migration Institute of Australia says… Employers in regional and remote Australia find it extremely difficult to fill positions with workers who have families, homes and lives in our capital cities – cities that house the unusually high figure of 85 per cent of our population…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.