Albo confirms he’s another Big Australia shill

Monday 27 May 2019

It hasn’t taken long for soon to be new Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, to shatter hopes that he would follow the will of the electorate and pledge to lower Australia’s immigration intake back towards sensible historical levels:

Over the weekend, Albanese explicitly threw his support behind Australia’s mass immigration ‘Big Australia’ policy:

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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.