The Coalition government reopened the border December 2021. For the seven months to mid 2022, they targeted 200,000 "migrant worker" arrivals.
Tame, eh? Labor's 2022-25 term will approach 1.5 million in net-migration. For this 80% level of population replacement, the porkies have had to be turbocharged:
Mega migration is not government policy, just catching up for COVID, lower than the Coalition. Look over here, at our budget repair, inflation fighting, "million" jobs, "growing" wages, cost-of-living "relief", housing accord, net zero "transformation".
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Chief liar Jim Chalmers has had deputy liar Clare O'Neil at Home Affairs. Her "Australian values" required "truckloads" of immigration's "special sauce". Simultaneously, she'd "halve" migration, fixing a "broken" system.
On her visa watch, net migration nudged one million in two years. Doubling, Chalmers' counterfeit Treasury estimates. Pouring accelerant, on housing crisis.
What to do? Astonishingly, Albanese switched this "future leader" onto Housing and Homelessness.
Instantly, she was about housing "delivery, delivery, delivery" with "exactly the kind of policy" voters want. More lies.
By Treasury estimates, net migration will "fall" to 260,000 in 2024-25, then to 235,000, with population topping 40 million by 2062.
Extra lies. With Labor permitting 270,000 "international student commencements" for calendar 2025, net migration will go near 400,000 again in 2024-25.
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Extraordinary developments won't stop it either
Who are these "stakeholders"? Yes, I do keep a list.
Highlighting: politicians, federal agencies, industry and developers, states and cities, economists and "planners", media, universities and unions, think tanks and lobby groups.
Their class groupthink revels in Open Borders and Net Zero. If undemocratic democracy can't stop Huge Australia, what could? I essayed this once before. Problem, these answers too, are long shots.
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