During the election campaign, Fairfax questioned why both sides had been conspicuously silent about Australia’s immigration intake.
Former senior Immigration Department official, Abul Rizvi, answered that if either side promised to ramp-up immigration, they would face electoral annihilation:
Net migration was forecast in the budget to go from “a very large negative in 2021 to 235,000 by 2024”, Rizvi said.
