Crispin Hull exposes politicians’ Big Australia “madness”

Sunday 17 March 2019

Fairfax’s Crispin Hull has clearly taken over from Ross Gittins (who has curiously gone silent) in pointing-out the pitfalls of the ‘Big Australia’ mass immigration policy.

Back in January 2017, Hull argued that the main solution to making housing more affordable rests with winding-back immigration:

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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.