Mass immigration and globalisation are not the same

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Big Australia booster, Jessica Irvine, has penned another strawman article to attack calls to lower Australia’s immigration intake back to historical norms:

Already we hear voices calling for caps on migration and reinstating domestic industries.

It’s up to politicians to remind us why we should not give in to fear-mongering and turn inwards as a nation. Because, we already tried that. It was called the 1970s…

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About the author
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.