How the Australia Institute transformed into immigration propagandists

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Before it turned full-blown woke, The Australia Insititute (TAI) used to talk sense on immigration.

In 2015, TAI published an excellent research paper calling for a national debate on Australia’s future population:

Since the Sydney Olympics in the year 2000 the population of Australia has grown by 25 per cent. In fact, since the Sydney Olympics, Australia’s population has grown more than the entire population of Sydney at that time…

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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.