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

By Stephen Saunders - posted Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Her Commission's conundrum? Our "slowest" pace of productivity growth in 60 years.

Wouldn't link to the population deluge, eh? Instead, woke Jim's tasked her on technology, climate change, care services, and population "ageing".

Not even Treasury's ABS is untouched. Their new population projections still miscast 175,000 as "lower" migration.

Though they also attach, "zero net" migration scenario. Hapless voters should be so lucky.

Home Affairs and other Departments - normalising mega migration.

Pezzullo's dream empire is the contradictory Home Affairs conglomerate.

Directorates like Border Force and Cyber Security patrol borders, keeping us "safe".

Immigration directorate stands for open borders. Until COVID, they were nailing Treasury migration targets, tolerably OK.

Over 2022-23, they totally overshot. Over 2023-24, don't trust Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil. Re Jim's huge target, of 315,000.

Conveniently, an ex-Treasury Secretary oversaw Clare's Migration Review. Spinning Treasury narrative. We mandarins can't "cap" or "manage" net migration. Only "permanent".

Thus, Immigration consults and reports industriously on the "size and composition" of Permanent Migration.

Barely mentioning, that most of the 195,000 (190,000 for 2023-24) permanent "outcomes" are already here on "temporary" visas. Total "outcomes" mostly reflect visa upgrades - via Minister Giles 'APS platoons.

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