Another economist slams Treasury’s immigration spruik

By Leith van Onselen

First it was MB. Then it was Judith Sloan. Now The Australian’s Henry Ergas has joined the chorus slamming the Australian Treasury’s propaganda supporting mass immigration:

…the goal of migration policy is not to increase popula­tion density for its own sake. Nor is its purpose to increase gross domestic product, or even GDP per capita, as the paper implies.