Budget: population porkies for Big Australia

A shop-worn fib. "Ageing" population and workforce mean increasing dependency ratios and drains on Budget. Requiring mega-migration relays.

Migrants also age. The "rejuvenation" is temporary and minor, but for repetitive top-ups. That is, the only answer to more migration is more migration.

Longevity is a societal plus not minus. US longevity is going backwards.

Silo "rejuvenation" hustlers spread alarm about failing health, health costs, sluggish revenues, faltering productivity. If anything, population ageing can lift productivity and participation. But Treasury Intergenerational Reports pre-load a Big Australia.

Fib: Opposition to mass migration must be racist

The "Racist Card" disciplines speech around immigration. Nixes prudent population policy.

Exbibit A: Shadow Immigration Minister Kristina Keneally, veering off script in 2020. Said she, the recent "size and shape" of immigration has "hurt many Australian workers, contributing to unemployment, underemployment and low wage growth."

What, Australian Labor backing Australian labour? Silo economists were scandalised. Team Albanese flashed her the Card. Had her walk back the words. And worse.

The centralised imposition of mass migration is of itself discriminatory. Australia preferences UN immigration policies ahead of local constituents.

In bipartisan rhetoric, new migrants ace business and job creation. Closer to truth, all-time immigration influxes flatten wages and living amenity.

Explains why the majority dislikes Big Australia. Sure, migrants still have to fend off racists. Such persons are so 1945. Fait accompli, we're a multicultural migrant nation.

Recent migrants tend to assimilate to local immigration preferences. Even in western Sydney. Recall Bill Shorten's election fizzog - uncapped migrant parent visas.