For Treasury guy Parkinson, as for Minister Burke, actual migration levels are none-of-your-business. What matters is the "transition to net zero", "global competition" for migrants, "trust and confidence" in our "multicultural society".
How have Clare and Martin maintained trust, not? As it happens, by delivering the hugest, least skilled, most temporary, immigration program since Federation.
By now O'Neil's shunted sideways, to lie with impunity about Housing and Homelessness. By now, Chat GPT can list "causes" of our low productivity growth. Like Parkinson, these print out in circular terms - low investment, shift to services, slow tech diffusion, weak R&D, red tape, skill shortages, and market concentration.
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In paraphrase, everything's to blame, except the government. Australians even call for a migration freeze, in the latest IPA poll. Ley Liberals aren't interested.
Albanese and Chalmers can punish voters, with open-borders net-zero policy, for a good while yet. Unnecessarily so, leaving our resources-rich island-nation poorer, with less affordable energy and housing, in a less equal and more divided society.
Like Julia Gillard, the enriched twosome can exit to rewarding after-careers, couched as reformers in Wikipedia-history. Wouldn't we all love to have these fail-proof jobs?
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