Public-service mega-migration spin is winning the war on voters

Treasury pretends, net migration's not even a target. Just la-la "forecasts" generating la-la population "estimates". Budget Speeches omit the Huge Australia plan. That's squirrelled into Appendix A behind Budget Paper 3.

Which "explains" in circular terms, migration-depends-on-migration. No one's supervising our turnstiles, right? Not relevant to voters, OK?

Jim took this Treasury mockery next level. Showboating on national ABC. Migration isn't "government policy…that the government determines".

"Congestion busting" Morrison gifted Treasury a Centre for Population. To "understand how population is changing" [my emphasis].

Jim embraced it.

The end-2022 Population Statement fibbed, 2022-23 migration would only "recover" to 235,000. Which the Population Director passed off, as normal or "pre-pandemic" trend.

Huh? 235,000 tops the Big Australia average, over 2007-2020. The post-1901 average for net migration is only 80,000 – the 20^th century average much lower.

Jim's big picture Treasury falsification is "slower" population growth. "Only" reaching 40 million. When 26 - even 19 – million was overstretching Australia's carrying capacity.

Former Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe sometimes mentioned unmentionables. Massive migration drags on productivity , wages and housing.

Now Jim's found an accommodating RBA chief. A central banker, right into climate change.

In her maiden Governor's speech , rental crisis is no big deal, little people. She lifted interest rates, awkwardly denying that runaway immigration fuels inflation.

Jim's new Productivity Commission chief, once an "exceptional" APS mandarin , arrives from the Grattan "Institute". Corporate "think" tank gaslighting for mega migration.