Immigration

The higher education lobby continually spouts the lie that international students are a vital export industry for Australia, generating $46 billion of export earnings for the nation.

The Grattan Institute has published a report arguing that Australia should reform the points-tested skilled permanent visa system.

Master Builders Australia (MBA) CEO Denita Wawn has attacked the Albanese government for excluding skilled tradespeople from the specialist skilled migration pathway.

Recall that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has set a target to build 1.2 million homes over five years, or 240,000 homes a year, starting from 1 July 2024.

The ABC’s Laura Tingle ruthlessly attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that a future Coalition government would modestly cut the permanent migrant intake and curb temporary visas.

The boss of the ACT’s largest developer, Geocon founder and Managing Director Nick Georgalis, has attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to modestly cut Australia’s migrant intake.

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.

Ross Gittins was formerly one of the few bright spots in the mainstream media’s coverage of immigration.

Last week, I argued that Australia’s ‘whack-a-mole’ immigration system is actually making skills shortages worse.

Over the past week or so, we have seen ABC’s Laura Tingle ruthlessly attack Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that a future Coalition government would modestly cut the permanent migrant intake.

The AFR’s education editor, Julie Hare, was busy once again spreading the myth that Australia’s international education sector is one of the nation’s largest exports, worth $48 billion in export dollars.

A week ago, ABC chief political correspondent Laura Tingle wrote an article attacking Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s pledge to moderately lower Australia’s migrant intake.

The AFR’s Michael Read published a propaganda piece on Friday warning that the Coalition’s modest proposed cuts to immigration would have a devastating impact on the economy.

Immigration influencer Abul Rizvi is among the critics of the federal government’s plans to impose a cap on the number of new international students, which is supported by the Opposition.

Professor Peter McDonald has to be Australia’s leading flip-flopper on the topic of immigration (for example, see here, here and here).

In 2021, I commended economist Ross Garnaut for arguing for a halving of Australia’s pre-pandemic net overseas migration in his book Reset.

Labor’s federal budget projection of 395,000 net overseas migration (NOM) this financial year is looking even shakier following new figures showing that the number of international students enrolled at Australia’s universities was 17% higher than in 2023 as of March.

As he so often does, Crispin Hull from the Canberra Times has neatly dissected the deleterious impact of two decades of excessive immigration on Australian living standards.

MB has gone to great lengths highlighting the many contradictions of vocal mass immigration booster, Professor Peter McDonald (for example here and here).

Recall that the Grattan Institute lobbied hard against domestic gas reservation in 2013 when the gas export terminals were being built in Gladstone.

By Salvatore Babones, Associate Professor at Sydney University and author of the book, “Australia’s Universities, Can They Reform?”.

The level of lies and gaslighting on display attacking Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s proposal to modestly cut the permanent migration intake beggars belief.