ANU’s feminist immigration-influencer Liz Allen is a toxic Treasury wolf in sheep’s clothing

Now for another Treasury lie – net migration is reverting to the "recent historical average".

Sure, if you start off history from 2007. That's when annual net-migration first cracked 200,000, immediately followed by Rudd's 300,000, closely followed by Albanese's 500,000. The honest historical average is only about 80,000.

That's where we should be now, absolute tops. But Allen's socio-babble is immune to Australia's dangerously vulnerable environment of droughts, fires and floods:

"The government says it's doing more for women and mothers…demographic insights have enabled an effective political sleight of hand…blaming population growth for the housing crisis is another stroke of political mastery".

This mush is good enough for ANU Pravda. And who needs editors, at the elite "academic rigour, journalistic flair" Conversation. What matters is ersatz housing-affordability heroine Liz, weeping her government-friendly crocodile-tears:

"The Albanese government has introduced changes to build integrity into the migration system, but NOM [sic] figures were set to decline anyway. It comes down to the way it is calculated."

Brava, Liz. A Home Affairs fib, a Treasury fib, with an amuse-bouche of red herring.

Little people, try to understand, NOM means net overseas migration. Technical stuff, but maybe you can begin to grasp it, if tutored by top-flight ANU demography:

"What happened with the NOM during COVID closed borders was essentially a calculation reset … taking a longer view of NOM … shows smoother growth than popular media suggests."

From this word-paella, it's difficult to derive a palatable English translation. But note the trite and cynical deceit. Federal Labor's all-time immigration deluge isn't really happening, people, you just imagined it.

Even at the 2000-word mark, this mock-heroic advocate can still find room in her bigly gender-equity-seeking heart, for cliché after postmodern cliché.

"The language of otherness", she postures, creates fear in the "population narrative". For a third time, seems like we're racists.