Kohler: “National emergency” means immigration must be “drastically cut”
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The Australian’s Alan Kohler has labelled the rapid population growth in Melbourne and Sydney a “national emergency” and called for immigration to be “drastically cut”:
Whatever is left [in the Budget], plus any more windfalls that arrive over the next few years, should be spent on rail transport, in my view. Either that, or drastically cut immigration. The situation is becoming a national emergency.
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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.