NSW leaders ‘dumb and dumber’ on immigration

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I thought NSW had hit rock bottom in the immigration debate last week when Premier Chris Minns argued that more immigration was the solution to the state’s housing crisis.

Basically, Minns tried to argue that migrants were needed to build homes for migrants:

“We’re supportive of the commonwealth government’s decision to lift immigration into New South Wales, notwithstanding the fact that we’ll take, not the majority but the greatest number of inbound immigrants”.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.