News flash: minister's 'big, gutsy' migration review will back minister

Beltway economic persona Martin Parkinson is review chief. He'll be safe as houses, in terms of skirting the predetermined migration and population policy he mustn't review.

Just to keep things sanitary, he'll be consulting with the usual "silo" of mass-migration loyalists, the same insider interests who got invites to the Jobs and Skills Summit.

Later on, there will be community consultation.The telephone-box of dissident organisations can have their say. Indeed, even private citizens. Isn't democracy grand?

Unsurprisingly, fifteen frantic years of our Big Australia racket has captured Home Affairs and corrupted integrity. Has incubated a hot mess of immigration shills, agents, lawyers, ventriloquists, spruikers, and go-betweens. The Immigration Ministerhimself was one.

What a stroke of luck! Just in the nick of time! Our vividly reforming Home Affairs Minister is the one who can fix it. Her cleansing review can stamp out those horrid visa scams, all Peter Dutton's fault, and threatening to wreck her pristine migration program.

Seriously now, if you really want integrity, don't rerun the program at manic levels of overreach. Almost unequalled in the OECD, almost guaranteeing more corruption.

To ice the cake, let's go back to the Treasurer, overall architect for population policy.

His immigration blitz will import about 1.5 million in net migration by 2030. This will trash housing and rental affordability, flatten wages and boost unemployment, accelerate fire and flood-prone outer-urban development, lock in environmental degradation and species crashes, and torpedo the purported 43%emissions reduction.

Against that, he giveth the workers the placebo, of a wellbeing framework. They're all the rage in rich OECD nations. Who needs jobs and houses? Or environment and species?

As it happens, a key Labor precedent for this review is their Population Strategy of 2011. That too deployed a fake consultation that took endless mass migration as the beneficial given. It didn't have this fresh flim-flam of visa rorts and visa backlogs.

Take a bow, Labor, for opening out a whole new funfair of immigration smoke-and-mirrors. To top this, the next Coalition Government is going to have to try harder.