DOI "Skilled" migrant quota. Major backdown by Anthony Albanese's government as it readies to slash record immigration numbers to ease cost of living and housing pressures
LOL, absolute BS. This is just what Australians want to hear and rightfully so. Of course, the Daily Telegraph article that potentially has new revised net figures is locked behind a paywall.
Economist Chris Richardson, who has worked for the Australian Treasury and the International Monetary Fund, said 'housing affordability is the worst it's ever been' and capping immigration 'for a time' may be the best way to ease the crisis.
Commonsense. Migration should be stopped immediately and for decades, then only opened up to White countries.
Anthony Albanese teases new plan to reduce immigration to 'sustainable level'Sustainable? So reduce migration from 2M p/y to 1M?
A Treasury estimate earlier this year of Australia's net immigration intake for 2022/23 at a tick more than 400,000 has been well exceeded.
Std 150K skilled migration up to 500K. This does not include unskilled migrants, students, etc.
Migration is higher than the rate we can build houses at or create jobs.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the nation grew 2.2 percent to 26.5 million people in the 12 months to 31 March, or roughly the period following the closure of international borders
Net overseas migration accounted for 81 percent of this growth and added 454,400 people.
81%!
There doesn't seem to be anything here yet