By design, Albanese’s ‘huge Australia’ population-drive has bypassed voters

Too bad, if a sizeable Australian-voter survey, wants low migration. Naturally, Clare O'Neil's ex-Treasury migration reviewer preferred that suss Scanlon Foundation survey.

Tech CEO Matt Barrie lambasted Huge Australia. At a Sydney 2050 population-booster. Media disappeared him. Except for a News.Com outlier. In whose poll, punters disliked Huge Australia.

Fun fact, even Guardian Essential poll sniffs the voter breeze. 59% want an immigration cap until we have sufficient affordable housing.

In Guardian-speak, what means cap? 235,000? Definitely not, 75,000. Or zero.

Affordable housing? Earth to Guardian - that pony's gone for petfood.

The population-environment gulf has never been wider. Since United Nations net zero emissions debuted, over 2015-18, population policy has jumped the shark.

Enthralling net-zero aspirations don't fix age-old problems. This fragile continent's crashing environment and constrained carrying capacity.

Treasury, not Tanya Plibersek, is our ecosystem czar. Their October Budget included "boutique" environment measures. Never mind mass migration, land-clearing, habitat destruction, species crashes, water insecurity, over-reliance on extractive revenues. She'll be right, bloke.

Now, we have deceptive climate "law" and a dubious net zero "authority". Scientifically, our rocketing population-growth and ecosystem-overshoot stymie "net zero".

May Budget published bigger environment measures. Bigger population/climate boasts. "Net zero industries" and "renewable energy superpower". Part industry policy, part cargo cult.

As usual, mass migration trumps wages and welfare. Albanese's "million extra in new homes before 2030 is nixed by the near certainty of 1.5 million extra in net migration".

That was December. Before our Marrickville Militant flambeed Australia's education/training standards. For bro Narendra Modi. Capacious Extremis, we're to have virtually no-limit immigration. From the world's most populous nation.