To seriously question mega migration would add a "toxic combination" that's "ugly and divorced" from reality. Meaning - you're a racist. Don't you even want rising house prices forever?
But wait, hasn't the rental distress triggered a political backlash? Nope.
Instead, Labor and Greens diss the homeless, via an ineffectual Housing Australia Future Fund. Greens spokes-youth Max Chandler-Mather wins plaudits, for his fake "affordability" concerns.
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While a Greens-Labor dominated Senate Committee tables a lame Rental Crisis report. Staying on message, it only targets supply-side "solutions". Might be racist, to unpack the demand side.
Quotes the report, mega migration hasn't caused the rental crisis, being "well below the 2009-2019 trend". The government fib is returned-to-sender, via a "progressive" think-tank.
The Coalition has pushed back. At Budget in Reply, Peter Dutton linked the rental crisis to mass migration. Immigration shadow Dan Tehan is keeping up the pressure.
Yet they're light years from any voter-friendly net-migration commitment - like 80,000 and less.
What about all the other "stakeholders" who influence (or buy) government? Our central agencies, state premiers, developers and industry, unions and employers, universities and scientists, "think" tanks and migration "agents", economists, urban planners or demographers, and organised religion.
As one beehive, key stakeholders buzz for the UN climate emergency and its implausible net zero.
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A net-zero crystallised remarkably recently, apparently via "green" activists rather than the endless-growth corporates. Small comfort for our failing environment. Small comfort, for ordinary Australians whacked by Albanese's unnecessary immigration/housing emergency.
With Steven Kennedy at Treasury, a pro-migration think-tank guru to head the Productivity Commission, and a Reserve Bank lifer to run RBA, Treasurer now has his economic A-team.
For the duration, these lavishly remunerated influencers will proffer the upside-down "advice" he'd want to hear. Like, population growth is a natural for jobs growth and economic growth, boosting productivity and real wages, also miraculously enabling a "net zero".
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