Immigration

“Dr Demography” Liz Allen from the Australian National University (ANU) is the go-to talking head whenever the media wants a quote about the fantastical benefits of mass immigration.

Last year, former Home Affairs Minister Claire O’Neil decried the temporary nature of Australia’s migration system, claiming that it was holding the country back.

The ABC’s Jacob Greber claims that the international education sector is an “export giant” that is being unfairly targeted by the federal government’s desire to lower net overseas migration.

By Stephen Saunders: Democracy seems futile, up against Huge Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has published a research paper examining the claim that high interest rates are partly to blame for the rental crisis.

I noted earlier this week how net overseas migration continues to run hot, despite moderating somewhat from last year’s peak.

The e61 Institute has published an interesting report examining so-called “visa hopping” by international students to extend their stays in Australia.

It is incomprehensible that Australia’s leading business paper, which should understand the interaction of supply and demand, lacks the honesty to mention demand when evaluating the housing crisis: The AFR View rightly claims that “housing affordability” policies like looser lending standards and shared equity are unhelpful to Australia’s housing affordability crisis.

Following a strategic review of the student visa program in 2011 (the “Knight Review”), the Gillard government significantly enhanced employment rights for graduate (485) visas in 2013.

The AFR this week reported that the number of temporary migrants in Australia spiked by around 100,000 in the past year, with the volume of student visas surging to an all-time high 679,293 at the end of August.

An academic from the Queensland University of Technology have come up with a brainiac solution to Australia’s housing crisis: have older Australians rent out their spare bedrooms.

In September 2022, the newly elected Albanese government held the Jobs & Skills Summit with the primary objective of accelerating net overseas migration into Australia.

Preliminary data reported in The SMH shows that the number of offshore student visa applications fell to 18,697 in July, compared with 36,207 during the same period in 2023.

A reader sent me the below meme, which neatly explains why curbing immigration is far more important for housing affordability than curbing negative gearing: Stimulating property investment via tax policies like negative gearing does push up house prices by stimulating investor demand.

In a recent speech to the Sydney Institute, Assistant Minister for Immigration Matt Thistlethwaite admitted that immigration “has provided marginal economic benefit” and has not boosted the nation’s productivity.

Assistant Minister for Immigration, Matt Thistlethwaite, said the quiet part out loud in a recent speech to the Sydney Institute.

Back in May, Laura Tingle ruthlessly attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s announcement that a future Coalition government would modestly cut immigration.

For many years, MB has argued that the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) estimate of the export of education is exaggerated because it incorrectly included income from international students working in Australia.

We often hear Big Australia shills claim that Australia’s population is still smaller than it would be if it were not for the pandemic.

In September 2022, the newly elected Albanese government convened the Jobs & Skills Summit with the express purpose of turbo-charging net overseas migration into Australia.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released demographic data for the March quarter of 2024, which revealed that net overseas migration (NOM) has blown way past the May federal budget’s projections.