Could the US election result dent the 'Huge Australia' plan?

Or Sustainable Population Australia or Dick Smith can say, population might stabilise over some years, if net migration didn't exceed 60,000-70,000 say.

There's your rational, national, popular, population plan – go sub six-figure migration.

For Election 2025, the lowest offer thus far is Liberals' 160,000. But was this a "core" promise?

Even that level of contraction wouldn't be straightforward. Labor has carpet-bombed the country with way past two million temporary visa-holders, including more than three-quarters of a million "students". Just because they could.

Then note here, as even pro-migration ABC concedes, the arrogant and highly visible Biden-Harris immigration-overload might have been their "major misstep".

While just this week, Australia's million-dollar Treasury Secretary admitted what he's always known. Whoops, his 2024-25 migration estimate of 260,000 will "overshoot…as students attempt to stay in the country".

Overshoot? You can't make this stuff up. That 260,000 was bogus, the day it was first published in May last year.

"Better planning" is a political cop-out

Five years ago, Albanese advocated a "mature debate" on immigration. Just now, here's ACT Senator David Pocock, claiming Australia should have a "sensible, inclusive conversation" to "develop a [population] plan".

Yeah right. But David – first respond to the two-party plan we already have.

The ABC article coopts notable environmentalist David Lindenmayer. "It's crazy that Australia doesn't have a population plan." But second David – check the one we have.

The plan, this David continues, ought to be backed by a "dedicated, independent" body. Or even a commissioned "report" from the Academy of Science. Hullo, that Academy has long since squibbed, on arid Australia's population constraints. In favour of UN climate rainbows.

Despite lower-migration advocate Crispin Hull calling for a "hung parliament", any Australian parliament is heavily stacked for mega-migration. Just ask Senator Pauline Hanson, her two population-plebiscite proposals overwhelmingly canned by a scornful Senate.