Memo to Liz Allen: Mass immigration = greater inequality

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Feverish defender of mass immigration and a ‘Big Australia’, Dr Liz Allen, has hypocritically decried rising inequality across Sydney, where basic infrastructure and services are failing to keep pace with demand:

Professor Nick Parr, a demographer at Macquarie University, said the areas of Sydney among the most advantaged 10 per cent nationwide saw average reductions in death rates between 2012 and 2018 of 14.5 per cent, almost triple the average improvement in the most disadvantaged suburbs…

Professor of Urban Planning at Western Sydney University Nicky Morrison said many people in the western suburbs have to be more car-orientated and sedentary because they commute longer distances to work or to go grocery shopping…

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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.