Coalition: Labor has no mandate for “Big Australia”

Tuesday 8 August 2023

Faced with the worst rental crisis in modern history, the Australian public is growing increasingly unhappy with the Albanese Government’s record immigration.

Last week we witnessed viewers of “woke” ABC Q&A vote overwhelmingly for lower levels of immigration:

This follows last month’s polling from Resolve Political Monitoring showing that 59% of Australians believe that immigration numbers are “too high”, while only 25% believe immigration numbers are “about right” and only 3% think they are “too low”:

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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.