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

By Stephen Saunders - posted Wednesday, 29 November 2023


There it is – Albanese's agency apparatus for mass-migration propaganda. Not a topic, at the lofty "Institute" of Public Administration.

Instead, public-policy wonks complain. "Unaccountable" ministerial advisers are restricting the contest of policy ideas. Hullo? Ministerial mandarins do that.

Unsurprisingly, their "contest" prefers "climate" not population mitigation. Knowing, Albanese always anticipates, more migrants please.

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His misnamed Misinformation Bill would be another win, for Treasury population spin.

This Bill targets "misinformation" from outside government. Government and agency messages would be exempted. Purportedly, social media might block "disaster alerts".

Here's an unofficial disaster alert: Treasury's immigration blitz is a war on beleaguered voters, a pasting for economy and environment.

Yet Treasurer applauds himself. For two Budgets, Reserve Bank "overhaul", tax tweaks, cost-of-living "relief". We're beneficiaries of his "change".

In other pro-government coverage, Jim also shines. Never mind about: wealth thrashing labour, graphic setbacks in household incomes and real wages, energy bill shocks, record house prices, all-time rental crisis, and rising homelessness.

Albanese government and agencies have propagandised – normalised – the Coalition's triple-treat immigration levels. Then doubled down. Winning the war on voters.

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