The Canberra Times’ Crispin Hull has once again expertly demolished Australia’s open borders visa system, declaring that it is putting the “cart before the horse” and imposing a “self-inflicted wound of high population growth”:
Governments in Australia have never “focused on growing our population for its own sake”. In the immediate post-war early years of immigration we increased population for security reasons. “Populate or perish” was the mantra.
By about 1980 Australia’s population had a pleasant cultural mix and the economies of scale were such that we had probably reached peak benefit and we really did not any deliberate immigration program.
