Australian Politics

It is important to view Australia’s immigration policy in a historical context. In the first 60 years after World War 2, Australia’s net overseas migration (NOM) averaged 90,000 per annum, with only two years over that 60-year period recording a NOM of more than 150,000.

Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) last week showed that the combined recurrent spending of the federal and state governments rose by 7.7% in 2024-25, to $1.02 trillion.

The latest polling shows that support for the Susan Ley-led Coalition has collapsed.

When the Morrison government handed down the 2022-23 federal budget in late March 2022, shortly before that year’s federal election campaign kicked off, it was projected that net overseas migration for the full 2021-22 financial year would be 41,000.

The federal government is widely tipped to announce its 2035 emissions reduction target next week, ahead of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York.

In February, on ABC’s Q&A, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stated that the government was cutting immigration and relieving pressure on the housing market by reducing international student numbers.

Jacob Greber has a long tradition of being a businessomics commentator rather than an objective journalist, but he outdid himself yesterday with a bald-faced piece of propaganda for the gas cartel.

True to form, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took to Twitter (X) to declare that “Australia has one of the fastest growing economies”, “unemployment is down, real wages are up”, and “the private sector is continuing to drive economic growth”.

You can’t talk about it.

Australia’s transition to renewable energy will be extremely expensive, raising power bills.

Victoria’s finances are dire.

Japan wants security of supply.

Frank Chung at News.com.au has published a startling report on the huge increase in migrants attempting to claim asylum.

When you make race the issue, everything falls apart.

The Financial Review property summit was held last week, which contained the usual bluster on the need to lift Australia’s housing supply to meet demand.

Last week, the Albanese government announced that Australia’s permanent migrant intake would be maintained at the historically high level of 185,000.

The thing about being a groveller is that you invite being bullied.

The Australian Labor Party’s 2023 National Policy Platform included the aspiration to progressively increase the Humanitarian Program to 27,000 places per year.

Australians are fed up with the immigration-led economic model.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is back at it, lying that a renewables-based future will deliver Australia an “era of growth and prosperity” with the private sector leading the charge.

The fake left is as dangerous as it is stupid.

On Sunday, I appeared on Freya Leach’s Sky News show, Freya Fires Up, to debate Kos Samaris on the merits of Australia’s migration system.

The Price is right. The federal opposition is in damage control following firebrand senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s claims the government is accepting “large numbers” of Indian migrants into Australia to bolster Labor’s vote. Polling strongly suggests that Jacinda Price is right (especially now she has said it!).

This is good from The Australian.

By Vlad Lasky 20,000 Australians marched in Sydney last Sunday.