It will be interesting to see what sort of attendance they get. I do think immigration is in dire need of reform, however I think people over-estimate the impact that cutting migration will have on Australia. It is far from the fix-all people think it will be.
I think Australia would be far better served by having a conversation about future-proofing the country - i.e. making sure we have the infrastructure in place to support the projected population.
Yeah man, this is a totally reasonable thing to say in a country where the government is unwilling to even discuss cutting immigration at all
It's DEFINITELY the case that the dominant paradigm in Australia is too anti-immigraiton. DEFINITELY. In a country where a government productivcity summit doesn't even mention immigration at all, what we have to be really really careful about is people being
too opposed to immigration.
As everyone knows, having housing stock during a chronic housing shortage be taken up by people who do doordash for a living in a country that is primarily an resources producer where more people means dilution in the equity of the product of these industries is how you build a highly productive economy. Think about how rich we'll all be once there's hundreds of thousands more of these people in the country, especially all that automation and AI advancement that's supposed to be replacing huge number of jobs. It makes perfect sense that the people worried about this also want as many people in the country as possible.
And what infrastructure will "future proof" Australia? The government literally can't build enough houses to stop the housing population getting worse every year, and somehow there's going to be some magic fix where things don't get worse from millions more immigrants? You act like there's some simple thing the government can do, but other than vague proclamations ("the governmetn should build more housing"), there's nothing concrete.
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