“Racist” Coalition gay rights MP says cut immigration
Via The Australian:
The Australian economy will need to produce 13 million extra jobs in the next half century just to accommodate population growth, according to Liberal senator Dean Smith, who has urged Malcolm Turnbull to put further curbs on immigration levels to protect the nation’s standard of living.
With a Lowy Institute poll last week showing most Australians think the immigration level is too high, Senator Smith has upped the pressure on the Prime Minister about population, arguing there should be a new cap for immigration levels in Sydney and Melbourne.
The West Australian senator said the government was missing a political trick by not doing more to further reduce immigration levels, arguing the issue had become a key economic concern to voters.
“I travel around Perth metropolitan area, but importantly (in) regional Western Australia, population issues are becoming more top of mind,” Senator Smith told The Australian.
“At their core, population issues are about economics, which is a key Coalition strength and a debate that we should own.”
Correct. The political dividend will be immediate and devastating for Labor rendering it a terrifying prospect given:
- negative gearing reform will land on materially lower population growth;
- its foreign policy dalliance with China;
- our cities will be ghettoised even faster, and
- the ongoing crushing of wages.
It will also immediately install the Coalition as the greenest party in Parliament and wipe out One Nation, repairing the the Coalition’s divided base, plus drive a very useful public wedge between itself and corporate Australia to offset the Labor attack about Coalition unfairness and bias.
In fact, it is such a political and policy no-brainer that the fact that the Colaition has not done it can only be the result of either gargantuan stupidity, corruption or both.
