Melbourne’s Lord Mayor grovels for international students

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Nick Reece, Melbourne’s Lord Mayor and prominent promoter of mass immigration, believes he has the solution to the city’s housing crisis and failing economy: more migrants and international students.

Late last year, Reece announced that he was actively canvassing Chinese and Indian companies to open headquarters in Melbourne, citing the city’s large Indian and Chinese diasporas, as well as appealing for more international students.

“I’m going to be very aggressively pursuing Chinese and Indian companies to establish headquarters here”, Reece told The Australian Financial Review.

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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.