Migrants to regions for five years it is

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Desperate stuff. Via The Australian:

The Morrison government is due to consider a plan that would ­require some new immigrants to settle for up to five years outside Sydney or Melbourne, as part of a yet-to-be-released landmark pop­u­lation policy to ease congestion in the two largest capital cities.

The Australian understands a decision on a time period for mandatory regional settlement — as part of a new migration program — had been due to go to the Turnbull cabinet last week. It has yet to be put to the new cabinet under Scott Morrison.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.