Stop lying Labor: Permanent migration is behind ‘Big Australia’

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The lies and double-speak coming from the Albanese Government on immigration is unbelievable.

On Friday, Home Affairs Minister Claire O’Neil gave an interview to the ABC whereby she pinned Australia’s rapid population explosion this century on the growth in temporary visas:

A lot of your callers who are texting in or phoning you saying, worrying about the population rate, the big driver of that is not the permanent skilled migration program; it is this big influx of temporary workers that started all the way back in the early 2000s and just over the last 20 years, no‑one’s ever really had a discussion with the community about whether this is the right way to run a migration program. So, my view here, and I think this is shared again by business, unions, and civil society, is that we can build a better program if we think more carefully about bringing people into this country who are going to set down roots and support their local school and do all these amazing things, PK, that our forebears did that built this great country. So, we can do that again, but the migration system we have today isn’t getting us there.

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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.