For years, Michael Pascoe has attacked those calling for lower, more sustainable levels of immigration, while vigorously defending the current ‘Big Australia’ policy on spurious economic grounds:
Our migration program is being blamed for everything from housing prices in Sydney and Melbourne to low wages growth to traffic congestion. It’s a measure of how myopic Sydney and Melbourne commentary has become that it would have the nation’s economic parameters set to suit those two cities’ public transport shortcomings.
