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In the lead-up to the pandemic, former Labor immigration spokesperson, Christina Keneally, frequently attacked the Coalition Government for allowing Australia to be flooded with record numbers of asylum seekers arriving by plane.
“If a government is serious about stopping a flow of people coming to Australia, then it would be doing something about airplane arrivals”, Keneally said in 2019.
“People-smugglers have changed their business model from boats to planes”.
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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.
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