Former immigration department bureaucrat turned influencer, Abul Rizvi, was interviewed this month by Joseph Walker.
In the interview, Rizvi said the quiet part out loud and explicitly admitted that slowing population ageing comprised about “80%” of the motivation for the 2001 changes, which massively increased Australia’s intake of migrants, especially international students.
Until spending about a week reading up on Aus immigration policy and then interviewing Abul Rizvi (a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Immigration) in late Jan, I hadn’t realised that probably the dominant rationale of Aus immigration policy over the past couple of… pic.twitter.com/ybU9Vh9KCi
