Treasury’s massive ‘intergenerational’ immigration crushes democracy

On the very morning of his speech, Burke seemed to sigh, if only we had a central government. He was "very worried" about the three million temporary migrants who'd somehow materialised with that $42m. He had no "immediate fix" though "visa hopping" by international students would have to "be addressed". By Mr Nobody?

His unusually belligerent speech to Press Gallery chooks heaped contempt on voters. We don't have mass migration he lied. But how else, could Treasury have sped us to a world-beating 32% overseas born with 50% "migrant origin"?

No other major economy tops 45% population growth since 2000 whilst still running net-migration atop 1% of population. The developed-world norm is more like 0.3%.

Migration doesn't relate to the housing shortage, he lied. So, why even pretend to cut it? Even ABC Pravda sort of admits, acute rental-pain tracks high net-migration. Unconscionably, incoherently, Burke said the pain was our fault, but ever-more migration could fix it:

Locals "decided they wanted fewer people around [them]…but immigration will need to be part of the solution to help provide some space for housing supply to catch up".

Burke's leaked material, if not his speech, ran the same old media lie, Treasury 235,000 net-migration is "normal" or "long term" average. By any reasonable measure however, historical normal or average is five figures. Ask AI about it. Ask Treasury's first IGR of 2002.

Senator Hanson factually responded – Burke's still the Minister for Mass Migration.

Chalmers "intergenerational" prospectus fillets voters

"Doctor" Chalmers had rushed out a mass-migration Intergenerational Report in 2023, two years ahead of the presumed schedule.

Clubby ANU University House, with former NineFax flack "Professor" Mark Kenny as the fawning moderator, was Jim's perfect venue to launch his second IGR. The affable alumnus was bowled up soft questions from trusty front-row luminaries. I watched Kenny give him a democracy-sausage mug. Ha-ha, so witty, but it is ordinary voters being mugged.

Think of it. Jim banks on mass-migration and net-zero. Shucks, so do his Treasury and IGR. So does government ANU, home of Migration Hub and Climate Institute (ICEDS). So do government ABC/SBS, and media generally. No wonder they all hate on voters, who don't think like this.

Like Burke, Chalmers had telegraphed his lines to media. At ANU he praised Peter Costello, who'd invented this neat IGR in 2002, underlining the burden of "ageing population", enabling Treasury economists to sidestep democracy with mass-migration. Keep up, Jim. Ageing nations with low population growth needn't collapse but can have healthier economic growth.

The day before, partisan Kenny had railed at ON's populist tsunami and "race to the bottom". Bloke, ON's only targeting, 130,000 net-migration. That's respite, but still high , in world terms.