Immigration

The Housing Industry Association (HIA), “the voice of Australia’s residential building industry”, has attacked Australia’s skilled migration system.

During the height of the pandemic in 2020, current Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil declared the following from the opposition benches: “Immigration has been the special sauce in our national history”.

The Albanese government’s net overseas migration (NOM) projections have routinely underestimated actual results.

The 2021 Intergenerational Report (IGR) contained the following fantastical chart showing that each primary skilled migrant delivers $319,000 in net benefits to the Australian government, whereas every other permanent visa class (comprising more than 60% of the intake) costs the government money on average: There were some important caveats to this analysis.

Education Minister Jason Clare has confirmed that the federal government will specify limits on international enrolments at each of Australia’s 42 universities and potentially more than 1,000 vocational colleges.

Federal Skills and Training Minister Brendan O’Connor has attacked the Coalition’s planned migration cuts, claiming they will worsen skills shortages.

The Resolution Foundation claims that record immigration into the UK is masking a crisis in productivity and has failed to improve Britons’ living standards.

We all know that Australia’s housing policy has been broken for decades, resulting in declining affordability and lower homeownership rates.

Teal Independent member for the federal Melbourne seat of Goldstein, Zoe Daniel, has followed in the footsteps of fellow Teal MP Allegra Spender and attempted to shut down the debate on immigration.

After providing us with the imponderable mysteries of immigration policy and volumes last week, Tom is back with a new friend who is helping him run the ‘below forecasts’ based Chewbacca defence.

The fake left – which is a bizarre coalition of woke left and borderless capital – is going hard again at Nine.

The hypocrisy of Teal independent member for Wentworth, Allegra Spender, continues to astonish.

The SMH published the following chart showing the drivers of the rise in income tax receipts over recent financial years: As you can see by the purple bars above, “growth in the tax filer population” is a key driver of the rise in personal income taxes.

Luke Sheehy, Universities Australia Chief Executive Officer, delivered a speech on Wednesday attacking the federal government’s announced cuts to international student numbers.

On Tuesday, we witnessed the absurdity of Australia’s ‘skilled’ visa system in glorious 8K colour, with construction trades omitted from the draft skills priority list for migrants, while yoga instructors, martial artists and dog handlers were included on the list.

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.