This "skilled" migrants business is a lie; we hardly manufacture enough or do enough of anything these days that requires much skill. What we are getting more of are, taxi drivers, couriers, construction labourers, telemarketers, cafe-owners and aged- care givers who can barely make themselves understood in English. Skills my arse!

If we didn't have so many lazy, useless Australians, we wouldn't need any migrants.

It's not just Albanese ruining the country by importing masses of people completely different from the host population; the entire political class, apart from One Nation, are intent on wrecking the country with multicultural foreigners.

Dutton is opposing mass immigration in the hope that it will mean votes for the moribund Liberals. But, the people who would have once voted Liberal, know full well, from experience, that if the Liberals ever gain government again, they will do exactly the same thing as Labor is doing on immigration.

As for a "sizeable" number of voters not wanting a Big Australia, bullshite! They keep voting for one or other of the big immigration parties and, more than ever, Australians are not interested in anything that doesn't affect them personally. They might notice the evils of mass immigration when they are sleeping under cardboard out in the open.

Six pages of waffle will change nothing. Australia is still rooted.

When you keep adding water to a bucket it eventually fills and overflows.
Australia`s bucket has well and truly overflowed and is drowning us all.
Sheer madness this, out of control population growth, philosophy of government.
We are breeding ourselves out of house and home. Not just OZ but the entire world.
Just stupid!

Magnificent work from Stephen Saunders. The el nino is on its way.Soon the government appeals and laws will begin requiring us to save water. The panic will begin from the deficient,sub standard political classes,pretending this is entirely unforeseeable and the hoi polloi must cooperate. They will blame climate change,not themselves.

At a recent stint in hospital I noticed that several staff communicated in a language that was not English. At least they had a properly paid job and somewhere to live. I sometimes wonder if the aboriginal parliament is a smokescreen to distract from other issues such as immigration, interest rates and power prices. The government's publicist the ABC dutifully complies by glossing over these issues. Perhaps the thinking is we will enter a golden era when it all works out.

Reasons why not. If aborigines are the true owners of Australia's wealth then 700,000 migrants in 2 years will dilute that wealth in terms of housing and health budgets. After 3 years of La Nina and plenty of water in the rivers we may have become complacent about Australia's water needs. If desal is needed water rates will go up. I also suspect some heavy industries such as aluminium won't survive the full round of coal closures. Roll on 2030 with mass layoffs and unaffordable prices. The ABC will still have its job nattering about the irrelevant.

Agree, TTBN. Waffle changes nix. Agree, we're screwed. But we Aussie Voters stoutly resist, the proposition that we're nearly as dumb as Dr Jim Chalmers PhD Keating-Ology. In the article itself, I cite three proofs, that we would vote for Low Migration. If only we could - like in Sweden.

Point One: Best-In-Class Betts-Birrell TAPRI Survey. Point Two: Young Rupert Hisself, courtesy News Dot Com. Point Three: Repressive British Guardian Partisan Poll, unkindly brought to you by Fake Pollster Peter Lewis. I could go on.

This is mad hatter's economics.

Grow the economy by growing the population and therefore demand. And as economic madness personified.

A much better way to grow the economy, is via cheap energy.

This worked before and made us the third wealthiest nation state and a creditor one at that. When coal was king and as cheap as.

When (privatised, corporatised) greed was good, energy prices rose to the point where the energy bill became higher (30+%) than the wages bill (average 16%) and all but killed the manufacturing sector.

No prob said the pollies, we can buy all we need from China and become a service and mining economy.

And with that, we squandered mining booms 1&2 and look on course to repeat this stupidity?

Cheap energy again? No way, say the manure for brains, laborites. We WILL NOT DO NUCLEAR!

And slowly we sink into an economic abyss of our " own" making. We cannot house the current population and do not have the needed reliable water resources for more people.

And coal, gas and renewables are much dearer than nuclear as MSR thorium which could be as cheap or cheaper than 3 cents PKWH!
Alan B.