Coalition, Labor back away from a “Big Australia”

Yesterday’s dire Infrastructure Australia audit, which warned of growing infrastructure bottlenecks and rising costs across roads, rail, schools, electricity and water as Australia’s population balloons to a projected to 31.4 million people by 2031, has finally prompted both major parties to question their bipartisan support for mass immigration and a ‘Big Australia’.

The Morrison Government has announced that it will launch a ‘powerful inquiry’ into Australia’s immigration program:

The comprehensive review, to be led by Parliament’s joint migration committee, which usually examines the nation’s detention centres and visa laws, will take in population and infrastructure pressures…