Immigration

Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, published research on the record boom in international students and temporary migrants.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data on permanent and long-term arrivals and departures to Australia last week.

The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda.

Australia’s labour productivity performance has ranked among the lowest in the world. The following chart shows that the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) projections for productivity growth have been far too optimistic over the past decade.

The cognitive dissonance of the Grattan Institute is a sight to behold.

Over the weekend, Liberal leader Peter Dutton announced that a Coalition government would cap international student numbers to 25% of an individual university’s enrolments if elected.

Last week, the ABC published the following table showing Australia’s most valuable goods exports: Since Australia doesn’t manufacture much anymore, mining, energy, and agricultural goods comprise virtually all of Australia’s goods exports.

A Dutton-led Coalition government would ‘slash’ international student numbers if elected.

The Australian reported that international student visas have “dived” amid de facto caps implemented by the Albanese government.

Grattan Institute CEO, Aruna Sathanapally, told ABC’s Q&A that Australia’s failure to build enough housing was “at the heart of our economic problems”: “We can see that the wealth of higher-income Australians or higher-wealth Australians has turbocharged, particularly due to housing prices.

Last year, an Instagram video of a migration agent instructing rejected student visa holders how to appeal their decisions to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) went viral.

Geoff Russ from Canada’s National Post penned a cautionary tale on how out-of-control immigration has degraded Canada’s economy and living standards.

Recall that Tuesday’s federal budget forecast a significant slowing of net overseas migration over the forward estimates.

The Albanese government’s first budget, released in October 2022, forecasts net overseas migration of 470,000 over its first two financial years (2022-23 and 2023-24).

The Grattan Institute has published a fact sheet on earnings across Australia: According to Grattan, “the typical full-time Australian worker actually earns $90,416, and the typical Australian worker (including part-time workers) earns just $67,786”.

Former Treasury Secretary Dr Martin Parkinson, who led the federal government’s 2023 Migration Review, admitted that Australia’s mass immigration policy has failed to provide the nation with the skills it needs and has contributed to poor productivity growth.

Three months ago, I questioned why the population numbers contained in the Q3 ABS national accounts differed so widely from the official Q2 population figures released one week later by the ABS: That is, the Q3 national accounts implied 656,000 population growth for 2023–24, versus 552,000 growth in the official quarterly population data.

A Senate inquiry into university governance has heard claims that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) is failing to monitor the standard of university degrees.

On last week’s ABC Q&A program, federal health minister Mark Butler claimed the government has “been working very hard to get migration levels, immigration levels down to something we think the country can manage”.

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has pushed back against caps on international students, claiming such students are “as economic assets to be treasured, not as a problem to be capped”.

Recall the latest rental affordability report from PropTrack, which showed that rental affordability was the worst on record in Q4 2024, with lower-income earners hardest hit.

The University of Melbourne is considered Australia’s most prestigious university globally.