Tony Abbott shows the Coalition how to win

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By Leith van Onselen

Pressure within the Turnbull Government to cut Australia’s mass immigration intake continues to build. After Liberal Senator Jim Molan and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton last week linked mass immigration to infrastructure problems, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday repeated his call to slash immigration to improve quality of life. From The Guardian:

On Monday the former prime minister said he would make the case for cutting migration to improve “stagnant wages, unaffordable housing and clogged infrastructure” in a speech in Sydney on Tuesday…

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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.