Why facts (voters) can’t get a look-in against ‘Huge Australia’ groupthink

Media is compromised. The federal press gallery and the National Press Club (NPC) tend to repeat government's line and lob marshmallow questions. They love their advance drops.

Migration martinet Katharine Murphy parachuted from the Guardian into the prime minister's office. NPC President and ABC Board Member, Laura Tingle, has always been an immigration partisan.

Outfits like News Corp, Nine, ABC/SBS, Ten, Seven, Guardian, and The Conversation, normalise Huge Australia. Some (News Corp/Nine again, Canberra Times, Sky, Daily Mail) also cover the negatives.

Good for News Corp, and Nine. Means little, unless paramount chiefs Lachlan Murdoch, and Peter Costello put the screws on Huge Australia. Wait on - Costello as Treasurer started it.

Universities and unions are meant to serve our students and workers. Now Huge Australia comes first, especially overseas students. In the 1980s, even 1990s, professions and trades would have queried those Modi agreements. Not now – that might be racist.

UN climate policy has hijacked our population policy. Taking UN "net zero emissions" as gospel, our university herd recommends (convoluted) climate mitigation not (easy) population mitigation. Even though unchecked population growth greatly increases our ecological footprint.

Climate not population policy motivates think tanks and interest groups. TAPRI and SPA push back.

Some think tanks (CEDA , CIS , Grattan ) are growth lobbyists. Others (Academy of Science, ACF, Australia Institute ) have strategically ditched the population issue. Greens caved first, in 1998.

Low migration? That would be racist. Climate/green/housing/women's/religious lobbies are virtually (virtuously) obliged to reject it. Tough luck, for equality and opportunity .

These backflips indicate the 21^st century dominanceof the identity-based left-liberal culture of wokeness. Identity measures (and politics) replace equality measures (and politics).

How to counter stakeholders?

The disastrous Albanese legacy will be 250,000 minimum as the Treasury "normal" or floor for net migration, four to five times our 20^th century average.