It's also Treasury and the Reserve Bank, major political parties, state and city governments, academics, ABC-SBS and other mainstream media, the immigration lobby, think-tanks, employer-union groups, and organised religion.
Centred around the graduate classes, the silo feels eminently qualified to determine population policy. Potential defectors are quickly neutralised. Gladys Berejiklian and Kristina Keneally were easily shut down. And are out of politics.
Among 227 federal members and senators, few would dare challenge mass migration publicly. "New" Teals are every bit as hypocritical as Labor, Liberal and Green.
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Outside of the silo, only a handful of interest groups and media outlets take issue with Big Australia. Their views are downplayed or ignored.
Seventeen million voters aren't in the loop
Rapid population growth is a done deal between Liberal and Labor. Their Treasurers barely discuss it. They hide it, at the back end of their Budgets. They attribute it to their Centre for Populationglove-puppet.
This endless growth has never been put to voters. They've been shut out, by increasingly patronising ploys.
Prayerful Peter Costello, who cranked mass migration in 2005-06, also exhorted locals to go forth and multiply. His tacky Baby Bonus ran for a decade. All six prime ministers since 2007, Labor or Liberal, have worshipped mass migration.
Kevin Rudd was, still is, obsessed with Big Australia. Julia Gillard tweaked his language, not his policy, in her Sustainable Population Strategy.
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Said Scott Morrison, "everyone has a view" on population. His was the only one that mattered. Fallaciously he'd "bust" the infrastructure overload that comes with mass migration.
After multi-ministries Morrison it's easy for Albanese, to cosplay consensus guy. But the consent for his hyper-migration is manufactured via stakeholders, not voters.
Won't there be a backlash, as in certain European nations? Doubtful. We lack potent political parties to harness the stable-population preference.
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