This is laughable...The author languishes in ancient history.

The horse has so long ago bolted on ridiculously high immigration levels and the catastrophe it is and will be into the future,, it now grazes in the long yard with the baldy bay.

The problem is the Chinese influence on these levels. Now the solution can only be from the same Chinese.

Here is a prediction which will sadly unfold before our eyes. Chinese Belt and Road initiative: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_InitiativeAnother easy political fix for our politicians to embrace, while swamping Australia with more Chinese coolies, to further reduce the fight back from the disinterested Australians...whatever one of those is currently.

The modern Australian in no way resembles our past Australian who fought for our freedoms along the Kokoda trail in PNG, against huge odds, into the jaws of a slick Japanese military advance, designed to walk into a virtually undefended Continent.

Politicians have over the years, ignored history and sacrifices of its citizens, who attempted to save us from the inevitable fate now facing us.
This time there will not be a shot fired in defence of our once great Country.

Dan

Recently interviewed economic gurus have said as soon as the pandemic is settled we'll have to restart high immigration. It must be prominent in the economics hymn sheet. If Australia had a formal immigration policy it should look at leakage from different classes of visas. For example some say 16% of international students (some say 25%) seek permanent residence after doing a tough 2 year stint of rural hardship which could be on the Gold Coast. It's partly an immigration ruse which doesn't seem to be acknowledged in any policy.

To restore net immigration we should have some numerical triggers. I suggest that per capita GDP must have increased in four consecutive quarters, that not more 0.25m should be on Newstart compared to the 0.75m pre-Corona virus, that the average city house (mortgage or rent) should cost no more than 25% of the average wage and that hospital wait times are in months not years. Do all that then bring in more people otherwise shut the door.

Keneally's comments were a surprise, but certainly welcome, although not by some of her rattier colleagues. This is the first time a main party politician has spoken sense on our suicidal mass immigration policy. Big Brother Morrison still thinks mass immigration is a good idea. Both parties pig-headedly stick to ridiculously high rates of immigration, instead of training and employing our permanent three quarters of a million unemployed. Most of our politicians are so thick that they cannot see the stupidity of increasing our population by 30% over twenty years when we just do not need any more people here.

And, let's drop this silly talk about Australians "not wanting" to do certain jobs. Make the buggers do them; cut off their role. No work, no money. And if the likes of Anne Aly doesn't like "Australia first", she is not a fit person to be in the Australian parliament. Her sort are not even suited to be citizens of Australia.

But, of course, as it was said recently by another contributor, what governments want is different from what voters want. It's up to voters to stop voting for the clods put up by parties until decent candidates less interested in career prospects than serving their country and people are presented for consideration. If people are sick and tired of having near enough to a quarter of a million new people they don't want forced on them every year, they have to do some about it, because the idiots in Canberra won't.

Politicians, bureaucrats and business people have been bringing in cashed up Chinese to keep the Australian economy afloat for the past 30 years and in a couple of months the Wuhan Bat Soup Virus pandemic has wiped out all of the gains from that program and now all we have for our troubles is about 4 million Chinese who nobody wants anymore and the worse still being that the politicians, bureaucrats and business people will now be wanting the bring in millions more cashed up Chinese in an attempt to achieve economic recovery in the wake of the Wuhan Bat Soup Virus pandemic.

Australia's immigration policy is a "giant Ponzi scheme", according to Andrew Bolt. An excellent description. Both the LNP and Labor should be prosecuted for running the scam.

Way to go, Alex. But Albanese's "vision" statement simply ignored Keneally, as if he can't wait to get back to mass migration. Morrison will gladly oblige.

Too few people are aware of the TAPRI work, which clearly points to Labor as the party of "educated" elite opinions, certainly not for ordinary people.

As Piketty discusses at some length, today's rich countries tend to have one party for wealth, one for the educated, but none for the great unwashed.