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

The only type of "dedicated" population planning that parliament and Treasury would readily countenance is a rubber-stamp for mass migration. Like Treasury's Centre for Population.

Finally, here's ANU "expert" Alan Gamlen. Never mind any population "agency", let's make one for immigration too.

His thought-bubble is a national migration institute. This "central, authoritative body" would counteract recrudescent "misinformation" and "moral panic" with reassuring "research".

Research? High minded academic propaganda, more like it. Taking at face value Treasury's "huge return" on investment, from mega-migration.

Gamlen, echoing former migration-mandarins Abul Rizvi and Peter Hughes, urges "better governance" of immigration.

As if, rearranging the deck chairs (sorry, organisation charts) at what used to be Peter Dutton's Home Affairs, that'll fix thing.

Instead of a corrupted agency, rooting for "migration agents" and international immigration, suddenly we'd have a squeaky-clean outfit, prioritising the welfare of Australians. Bingo.

And Dutton himself?

Don't buy, the hackneyed promise of "better planning".

That "conversation" is code for Labor-Liberal collusion on mega-migration. Instead of just supporting voters and their standards of living – via low migration.

This article takes me back to its predecessor. In our "democracy of stakeholders", Huge Australia can't be remedied by democratic process. Scarcely even, by "extraordinary developments". Political unicorns, such as an "environmental calamity" or "exceptional leader".

Is Dutton exceptional? Would he have the bottle, to defy the conventional two-party connivance? And make a dead-set commitment to beleaguered Australians, to slash the immigration numbers, and wind back the come-one come-all student-migration rort?

If Trump doesn't incline Dutton that way, nothing else will. But the likelihood still doesn't look all that great, running a line through all the latter's past immigration and political form.