Clare O'Neil review greenlights huge migration - gaslights huge reform

We're also gaslit, about that "talent war". But the epic (student) migrant drive has indiscriminately pushed migration, way higher than Coalition targets. CountersAlbanese, immigration is still "much lower than it would have been and was predicted by the former government". Seriously, old mate? Even at 400,000?

To sum up, Parkinson has adroitly ducked the government's population/migration big picture. To look-over-there. At "skilled" migration, migrant wages, student visas. Sure, he offers worthwhile measures. But it's not the "once in a generation reform" he schmoozes.

Also, where's the missing recommendation: A root-and-branch examination of the Immigration empire and culture in Home Affairs.

Including the chronic corruption and shady middlemen that must inevitably attend massive immigration levels. Immigration's internationalist inclination is mucho migration. That doesn't always coincide, with the legitimate wishes of voters.

Like, how could they flip immigration so radically? From negative 85,000 in 2020-21, to plus 400,000 now? Nearly doubling this year's "forecast". Pundits didn't see that one coming. Neither do they care to check it out too closely.

This bold Chalmers population drive will keep on flattening wages, boosting unemployment, reinforcing housing/rental unaffordability. Before we even talk about negatives for the environment and equality.

Parkinson also presumes, that we'll keep on hogging "a disproportionately large component of the world's migration flows".

Backing these Treasury immigration imposts, the grey eminence does himself (and voters) few favours. Of course, the government's comfy. Their first response mirrors his report.

Media too, happily buys the O'Neil shtick. A Joan of Arc overhauling a broken system. She even ventured, she wasn't "someone" for a Big Australia. Yeah, Julia Gillard said that too.

This government's No. 1 objective thus far, so I claim, isn't the Voice or Republic. It's Albanese's ideological Migration Nation. To institutionalise, our immigration-based economy. Which will ever require of them, this debilitating and corrupting propaganda.

This festival of gaslighting never lets up. "Growth" in the 9 May Budget will still rely on heavily induced (and lazily accounted) rivers of immigration. Pretending, those rivers are as natural as raindrops. Shucks, ain't we ever the Lucky Country?

Say several reports, Chalmers' revised 2023-24 migration target might even rise, above his existing 2023-24 target of 235,000. To 315,000. Hardly like returning to "normal". As certain pundits have soothed us. 'Twould be nearly four times long-term normal. Huge.