Here, he would have noted the New Zealand election result.
Voters could choose a "conservative" not "labour" government. Either way, they weren't offered any real choice to dial down Jacinda Ardern's mega migration and housing unaffordability.
Albanese will leave the same legacy, of rusted-on mega migration. With its gifts that keep on giving, the housing and intergenerational divides. A starkly unequal educational system.
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Indeed, such is his momentum, he'd be hard-pressed do anything else.
He's made sure the world knows us, as the softest immigration touch. Passing off the resulting tide of "student" immigrants as our global war for talent. Difficult now, to tether that balloon.
Unmoderated, his Treasurer fibs on national ABC. Me, I don't control the immigration turnstiles, mate. Pure coincidence if the deluge makes my Treasury GDP richer and ordinary punters poorer.
This same Treasurer also broadcasts, and compromised "economists" parrot, that an institutionalised 235,000 in net migration will lead us to "lower" population growth over the next 40 years. Why, we'd "only" be heading for 40 million population, nothing really.
Even by "Treasury economist" standards, it's a stupid policy prospectus. Just like the planet itself, the size (carrying capacity) of our continent isn't expanding. Extra migrants can't BYO extra rain. Already WA and other states pile on "carbon abated" desal plants.
The environment was going backwards, when we "only" had about 20 million. How would it cope at 40? Oh right, Minister Bowen's cutting-edge "net zero" will fix thing.
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Exactly wrong are the silver-spoon careerist running Home Affairs, the open borders zealot helming Immigration. The first does rep theatre, supposedly fixing her "broken system". The second deploys costly armadas of extra staff, purportedly fixing his "visa backlog".
With these two hucksters helping, we'd be lucky to "reduce" net migration from its mammoth 450,000 to an elephant 235,000 any year soon. Even the latter would still be three timest he historical average, eight or nine times the 20th century average. Upside-down policy.
Remember too that Albanese set the V-for-Voice as a decoy. To help postpone the King Charles issue, until his second term as PM.
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