Budget: population porkies for Big Australia

No fib: Morrison-Albanese have thrown immigration into overdrive

The COVID immigration freeze was Australia's "sliding doors" moment.

With government stimulus, 2020-21 GDP growth was tolerable. Commodity exports motored on. Unemployment fell to lows thought impossible. While floods persisted.

Were voters craving a repeat 15 years of intensive immigration? No.

Yet Morrison, the minute he could, decreed a hyper immigration influx. Albanese's visa blitz ices the cake.

Annualised net migration is already pushing towards 150,000, on its way to 235,000 and more. Environmental precaution recommends 60,000-80,000 at most, hopefully to stabilise population around 30 million. Instead, Labor channels Howard policy. Relives post-war reconstruction.

Already, annual population growth is nudging 1%. And will surge. What silo never mentions? Comparable OECD nations commonly sit around 0.5%.

Post-Summit polls, here and here , distrust the immigration drive. Which will deepen the housing crisis, increase inequality, and hike unemployment. Tough for a well-being framework.

You tried to warn them, Coronavirus Party. You can't reason with Liberal-Labor Party. You'd almost need that asteroid strike, to shut down their Big Australia.