Earlier this year, the Morrison Government announced that is would cut Australia’s non-humanitarian permanent migrant intake by 30,000 to 160,000 in order to “restrain population growth pressures in Sydney and Melbourne in particular”.
However, while the non-humanitarian permanent migrant intake has been cut, net overseas migration (NOM) and net long-term arrivals continue to balloon, running near all-time highs:
The disconnect between NOM and the reduced permanent migrant intake is explained by ballooning numbers of temporary migrants, whose numbers hit an all-time high 2.33 million in September 2019, up 640,000 over seven years:
Therefore, one in every eleven residents in Australia as at September 2019 was a temporary migrant.
As expected, this surge in temporary visas has been driven by international students, which hit an all-time high 634,000 as at September, up 292,000 over seven years:
The rest of the increase in temporary visas has been driven mostly by visitors and bridging visas, whose numbers increased by 146,000 and 117,000 respectively since 2012:
Interestingly, temporary visa numbers are projected by the federal government to balloon even further, given the April federal budget forecast rising NOM over the forward estimates:
And with the high NOM will come massive population growth for New South Wales (read Sydney) and Victoria (read Melbourne) of around 600,000 and 650,000 respectively:
Combined, both states are projected to add around three Canberra’s worth of population over the next four years.
Clearly then, “population growth pressures in Sydney and Melbourne” will continue to worsen, despite the Morrison Government’s rhetoric about cutting immigration.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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Good news regarding immigration 14 hours ago:
Dutton charges unskilled wives $8000 to come here.
Too low. That kind of money would be consumed with welfare outlays in a year or less.
How much of the $8000 does Dutton get?
The bride’s family dowry will be more than enough to cover that 8 grand for millions of future subordinate wives and may even lead to the wife’s parents setting parental visas in the future.
A great investment for the wife’s family really.
Is that the Good news your referring to Jay?
“Dowries impose a considerable tax on girls’ families, with estimates indicating that in South Asia it is six times the average annual household income.”
http://theconversation.com/when-gold-prices-go-up-so-does-the-cost-of-a-dowry-and-baby-girl-survival-rates-in-india-fall-96061
In the 2019 federal election, the ALP wanted to allow grandparents to come over for free.
Abul Rizvi is complaining about Dutton – so I guess Dutton has done something good.
Meanwhile that dimwit albanese says we should export coal
Can’t wait for the eu to make trade deals contingent on that not happening
It’s almost like our politicians are literally retarded
Who is this albanese? And who leads the opposition these days? Do they have a leader? Is there any opposition at all?
How about we export charcoal. The entire east coast is now full of it. Seems like neither leader has noticed….
I can see your an Ideas man Guiny
Relax.
NAB
Sending a powerful message!
In other news, Malcolm Turnbull is back in Australia.
Albanese et al. take the view that if Australia stopped exporting coal, the market would simply be supplied by someone else, and there would be no net drop in emissions. I wonder if this is really true. According to this article, Australia is the world’s fourth largest coal producer and one of the largest exporters, supplying 24% of the world’s steaming coal in 2015. If Australia stopped exporting, the price of coal would probably go up, encouraging the countries that have been buying it to switch to other sources of energy.
https://ihsmarkit.com/topic/australian-coal-market.html
At what cost? over 100 thousand Australian working class jobs.
Not to mention our balance of payments leading to import price inflation that will also disproportionately disadvantage working class people.
Mr Market will happily step in as long a return on Capital and massive profits are guaranteed by the taxpayer and allowances made to enable enormous price gouging of Consumers (private tax farming) by these Energy Corporations, mostly foreign owned with no Democratic Accountabilitity to the Australian People.
FK That!
If Climate Change mitigation is Soooo crucial to the survival of Human Civilization then why wouldn’t we just Nationalize all Electricity generation and distribution and turn on the Printing presses to pay for a complete rebuilding of our entire energy infrastructure with Carbon netural of Nuclear and renewables.
A better economic stimulus send low interest rates for speculation
I have science degrees, but am not a climatologist, so don’t claim to be an expert. Even so, it is easy to see that the consensus on AGW is overwhelming in the scientific community. The denialists cannot match this, apart from assuming some vast global conspiracy, for which there is no evidence.
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Some of us care about our children and grandchildren. There is a lot more at stake than just working class jobs. After all, there were working class jobs in mining lead to make lead paint and to add to petrol. Never mind the health effects. There were working class jobs for sailors on slave ships. What we need is to get rid of neoliberalism root and branch, especially the insane idea that economic and population growth can go on forever. We need the sense of urgency and shared sacrifice that we had in World War II, where it was obvious, even to the dullest, that our survival was at stake.
Until climate change is happening at a rate that is observable, similar to the threat of WW2, don’t expect any serious action.
And by then it’s way to late.
https://www.thegwpf.com/ian-plimer-97-of-scientists-agree-on-nothing/
https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/02/05/science-wins-climatologist-dr-john-christy-joins-epa-science-board-christy-if-you-choose-to-make-regulations-about-co2-its-not-going-to-do-anything-about-the-climate/
https://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/greenhouse-science/climate-change/climategate-emails.pdf
I was in similar position as you until recently. Look at the climategate emails and read them and make up your own mind.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMC55rdOX_8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aOeOYlXrWlQ
I think they are going to beat us. People are becoming accustomed to the relentless crapification of their lives and no longer have the ability to rebel, or even dissent. All it took was abolishing Australian democracy.
Blackpill nonsense. It’s never too late.
It’s more the fact that Australians want someone else to fight for them and not lose their comfort or take any of the risk, as evidenced by numerous members of the MB commentariat complaining everyday and doing nothing tangible in the real world to better the situation.
The Joker was right, you get what you ffarken deserve.
https://www.alp.org.au/about/join-labor/
https://www.liberal.org.au/join-party
https://greens.org.au/join
https://www.onenation.org.au/member/
Maybe you think California is gonna bounce back?
500,000 should saffice were hungry