Via Greg Sheridan today:
The Turnbull government will cut the size of the immigration program in the coming budget. The cut won’t be huge. I would guess about 10,000. But the very act represents a failure of national development.
This is a profound dynamic that in the long term imperils our future, if not our viability.
…Melbourne’s population will have grown by more than a million people. This is why so many people have turned against immigration. As I wrote last Saturday, I believe profoundly that Australia needs a much bigger population, not least for national security. But as readers pointed out to me with great justice, we cannot do this unless we are much more energetic about infrastructure. I would put it more grandly and call it nation building.
No it isn’t. It’s class war pure and simple as wages get crushed, house prices soar and poorer areas get crush-loaded while richer make hay out of it.
A 10k cut is a PR stunt that will do nothing but at least it opens the door to more.
As for Greg Sheridan’s nonsense promoting the population ponzi, Leith already flattened it.