Immigration

In November, it was reported that the Albanese government wrote to the states demanding they rein in spending on hospitals.

Alex Joiner from IFM Investors published the following chart on Twitter (X) last week, showing the explosive growth in Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM), particularly since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

By Stephen Saunders: On its triennial immigration stats, Albanese Australia is a radical outlier not the cautious reformer of embedded media narratives.

Switzerland has long been considered a shining example of direct democracy implemented on a national stage, with its people voting on all manner of policy proposals to decide in what direction they want to pursue.

The recent Canadian federal budget revealed that migration levels are expected to remain dramatically below pre-COVID levels across the entire forward estimates.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release the official population and migration data for the June quarter of 2025 next week.

I reported last week how Chief Executive and Principal Registrar at the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART), Michael Hawkins, informed Senate Estimates that the ART was being overwhelmed by an “explosion” of international students appealing their visa rejections.

Australia has run one of the strongest immigration programs in the world this century, which has grown the nation’s population by an extraordinary 8.9 million people (based on the latest reading from the ABS Population Clock).

When the Nationals followed by the Liberal Party walked away from their commitment to Net Zero, it was swiftly branded everything from a gift to the Albanese government to flat-out political suicide for the Coalition.

Australia is a global outlier on immigration, no matter how much the government, the media, and others try to argue otherwise.

In September, Frank Chung at News.com.au reported that “international students are overwhelming Australia’s asylum system with bogus refugee applications, as the country’s deportation backlog surges towards 100,000”.

The Coalition will shortly discuss the ‘principles’ on which its immigration policy will be based.

Australia has the highest concentration of international students among major advanced nations.

For years, MB has argued that the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) estimate of education exports is wildly exaggerated because it: Incorrectly includes income from international students working in Australia. Does not adjust for remittances sent home from Australia by international students or former students (which are an import).

Former federal Labor MP Craig Emerson has written an article in The New Daily slamming those arguing for lower, more sustainable levels of immigration.

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

Recall that long-time immigration influencer Abul Rizi, who has forever championed a Big Australia and has ruthlessly attacked anybody arguing for lower immigration, amusingly endorsed the Canadian government’s sharp immigration cuts.

By Stephen Saunders The Coalition’s touted policy shifts enable Albanese to sail on with massive immigration, historic rental/housing unaffordability, and steepening power bills.

Abul Rizvi is a strange guy.

The rorting of Australia’s immigration system seems never-ending.