Immigration

Five young economists from Deloitte have rejected calls to lower immigration to alleviate housing pressures, instead arguing that migrants are part of the housing solution: The young economists argue migration is a solution to the housing supply gap rather than a problem because it will help fill skills shortages in the construction industry.

All recent opinion polls show that Australian voters are fed up with excessive levels of immigration.

I explained this week how the Albanese government has taken specific actions to bolster the flow of international students into Australia.

The Albanese government claims it wants to reduce immigration to Australia.

It appears that the average Australian knows more about housing affordability than YIMBY lobbyists, such as the Grattan Institute and the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).

Claire Field, a former regulator of the vocational training sector, warned in 2022 that a large number of South Asian students were arriving in Australia in “response to the unlimited work rights now available to those on Australian student visas”, enrolling in “lower quality and cheaper vocational colleges” to live and work.

It’s a Sunday and I can’t finish the lawn with a bit of moisture about.  Someone flips an article by Abul Rizvi into play, and foolishly I read it.  Doc Rizvi is slagging off the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) for a release about immigration.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that international education is Australia’s fourth-largest export, earning the country $51 billion in 2024.

The latest rental data from Cotality suggests that Australia’s rental market has tightened.

A new study, entitled “Perverse policy incentives and inferior economic outcomes” has exposed the failings of Australia’s migration system, particularly the student visa system.

Alan Kohler is one of the few ABC journalists willing to openly and honestly discuss Australia’s immigration system, which is the fundamental driver of the nation’s world-beating population growth.

Under a series of agreements reached between the Australian and New Zealand governments, Kiwis can relocate to Australia and reside there indefinitely using the Special Category Visa (SCV).

When Clare O’Neil was Australia’s Home Affairs Minister, she regularly lamented that Australia’s migration system was too temporary and was holding the nation back.

In decades now long passed, the issue of migration was largely one of practical considerations, defined by questions such as: How many new arrivals per year is viable?

In the debate surrounding immigration levels and population growth more broadly, the status quo is often described as normal, as if it were simply part of the natural order of things.

Last week saw Australia’s housing minister, Clare O’Neil, launch a propaganda campaign to distract voters from Labor’s housing failures.

I reported on Thursday how New Zealand’s rental growth has plummeted in response to the sharp decline in net overseas migration, which fell to only 10,628 in the year to August 2025, down from a decade average of 49,000.

In the debate surrounding Australian migration levels, the issue of New Zealanders coming to Australia under the bilateral agreement between the two nations is often brought up.

By Ross Elliott, cross-posted from The Pulse: A million people generate a lot of demand for things.

Recently, the level of migration has been a major source of controversy.

While the level of migration remains a hotly contested issue, from the nation’s halls of power to backyard BBQ debates, for the longest time, migration conceptually was considered a positive by a majority of the public.