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The freshly re-elected Lord Mayor of Brisbane Adrian Schrinner has taken aim at the record net permanent and long-term arrivals figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Tuesday.
This data showed that Australia recorded the strongest monthly (105,500), quarterly (172,400), and annual (498,300) net permanent and long-term arrivals on record.
Adrian Schrinner took to Instagram demanding that the federal government regain control of Australia’s borders:
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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.