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In July last year, Ken Henry raised the alarm on Australia’s excessively high population (immigration) growth, noting that “our population is growing at a rate that exceeds the capacity of traditional models of planning, building and pricing access to the nation’s infrastructure and housing”.
Then in December, Dr Henry returned to warn us that Australia’s break-neck population growth will crush living standards unless Australia’s governments embark on a massive infrastructure building program:
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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.