Australian Treasury: the puppet master behind a Big Australia

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The AFR’s Phil Coorey published an article explaining how the Australian Treasury is the puppet master behind the Big Australia mass immigration policy:

Migration long ago became a lazy method, adopted by both sides, to generate growth in the absence of any reform or productivity agenda.

As one Coalition source recounted from his days in the previous government, Treasury’s advice was essentially “just keep them coming in and keep the place ticking over…

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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.