Immigration

Proponents of high immigration claim that it is necessary to alleviate purported labour shortages and an ageing population.

By Stephen Saunders Leaving Anthony Albanese as a world outlier, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has stymied Canada’s population growth to ease the housing pain.

Recently on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) there was a table detailing population growth for various developed economies since 2000, based on the numbers from the OECD database.

This week, I lambasted the Australian National University’s (ANU) Jill Sheppard for stating that donations and lobbying from big business on immigration are “actually good” because they sway politicians to keep immigration high against the wishes of Australian voters, who overwhelmingly want lower immigration: I argued that Sheppard’s testimony effectively said, “Screw what voters actually want.

Australia is suffering its worst rental crisis in living memory.

Two weeks ago, I flew to Sydney to record an SBS Insight special examining the immigration debate in Australia.

The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda.

Business Council of Australia Chief Executive Bran Black delivered a keynote address to the Universities Australia Solutions Summit that repeated the same old myths and fallacies about the vital importance that international students play in the Australian economy.

The Grattan Institute argues that NSW could make 1 million additional homes feasible to build by copying Victoria’s planning rules that allow terraces and three‑storey apartments “as of right” across most residential zones.

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has released its National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the September quarter of 2025.

In the debate over the appropriate level of migration into Australia, the argument is often made that there would be significant economic downsides if a major reduction in intake were to be realised.

For those old enough, the Sydney Olympics held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 was ‘peak Australia’.

Build Skills Australia’s recent report claimed that there aren’t enough tradespeople to meet Labor’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years, which is currently tracking 27% below target.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday released monthly overseas arrivals and departures data for December, which continued to show strong growth in the number of people arriving and intending to stay in Australia for 12 months or more.

Australia is currently receiving a large inflow of New Zealanders. New Zealand citizens are permitted to migrate to Australia using the Special Category visa (subclass 444), which allows them to live, work, and study there without needing to apply for a visa before arrival.

In 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its Population Projections 2002 to 2101, which contained a baseline (Series B) forecast for Australia’s population of 26.4 million by 2051, based on an assumed net overseas migration (NOM) of 100,000 annually.

The Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) is the country’s peak professional body for registered migration agents and migration lawyers.

When the Albanese government came to office, it quickly raised Australia’s permanent migrant intake by 30,000 to 195,000 annually.

Former Home Affairs Minister-turned-Housing Minister, Clare O’Neil, regularly lamented that Australia’s migration system was too temporary and held the nation back.

In the debate over the types of houses being built in Australia, a frequently repeated narrative is that the shift toward more apartments is positive because migrants favour that type of living arrangement.