Thanks Alex Walsh for this article.

Just letting you all know that I posted some comments on this topic on the thread...

Where have decent and articulate conservative voices gone?

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=9164&page=0

'Immigration' or 'Migration' have been confused during the last 15 years since the UN Population Division's definition and/or formula was expanded by the 12/16+ month rule for inclusion in NOM net overseas migration data, conflating temporary churn over (net financial contributors) with permanent migration (declining proportional to population); hence frothy headline population data prone to spikes with increasing numbers of temporaries (not this year.....).

Elephant in the room for the developed and now much of the developing world is ageing workforces and increasing numbers of retirees needing services funded by govt. budgets.

Not sure what credibility the APRI has considering some of their related counterparts or collaborators in the US now informing Trump White House immigration policy?

One of these was the (now deceased) white nationalist and admirer of the white Australia policy, John 'passive eugenics' Tanton who declared publicly his penchant for a anti-semitism and antipathy towards Catholics, Hispanics, Blacks etc.; viewed though a prism of 'overpopulation' due to 'immigration' of the wrong types e.g. post 1970s immigrants to Australia.....