How anyone would be stupid enough to not want to stop all migration until all those Australians who's lives have been damaged by the Corona virus lock down are fully back on their feet I can't imagine.

They obviously must hate their fellow Ozzies.

If after that we want to start it up again, it should never exceed 20% of what it has been in recent years.

Apart from the heavy-handed move to close Keneally down, there are so many straw men in this piece, it's hard to know where to start.

Let's come back to tin-tacks. The only number that really matters is Net Migration. Frydenberg pitched it at 270K. The virus might cut that to 50K.

So, do we stay lower, which is what the electors and the environment want? Or, do we go back to the usual rort? Which is the preference of political parties, Treasury and RBA, the states, the developers, academics, media, and unions.

It's not hard to figure out who wins, is it?

In the midst of the China virus, which came across our borders, not from within, people still want to tell us that immigration is a good thing! The closing of our borders is the one big action that is responsible for our success in restricting deaths to less than one hundred. We have had another clear example of the dangers of globalism and free movement of people. Will the message never get through!

Although the China virus will pass into history, there will be other pandemics, and they are highly unlikely to come from within.

There is no necessity for Australia's general population to leave the country, most overseas travel is merely self indulgence. There is no necessity for politicians' 'study tours'. Conferences can be conducted technologically. And there is certainly no need for immigration, including that of skilled workers, who should be trained here. Universities managed without foreigner students in the past; they can again.

Trade would have to continue of course, no matter how self-sufficient we become; but all border and health resources would be free to concentrate on that.

Keep the external borders closed permanently, except for special occurrences, which can be dealt with when they occur. Mass movement? No more!

Hasbeen,

You old chocolate smarty, watch the Chinese flow in by the millions when Australia frees up its international borders.

And bet anything that Morrison and Berejiklian will be at the airport welcoming them in and saying "Come and get it, it's all yours!".

We're facing a depression and millions of Aussies out of work!

Surely there could be a pause to ensure we train these instead of replacing them with cheaper, allegedly skilled labour.

This is what one can expect of employers, when the energy bill is higher than the wages bill and that wages bill is the product of ginormous housing costs!

For every action, there is an equal reaction and for every reaction, there is a cause!

We need to first and foremost build a very fast train, then a huge stock of public housing.

Then roll out myriad MSR thorium SMR's And use that energy to make everything and anything. And with co-ops as the principal manufacturers.

Follow that with genuine tax reform, manifesting as a single tax of 15% flat. And unavoidable for all income earners above a more generous threshold! Meaning the adjusted rate free of compliance or reconciliation costs, would be around 8% in real terms. And necessary to stop our industrial hemorrhage and reverse it!

Then bring in TEMPORARY migrants when we need skills we don't yet have.

Ensure those new kills ar transferred and remain here!

Co-ops will ensure lazy employers can no longer get away with replacing untrained butt willing Aussies, with cheap imported labour!

We need to retask some colleagues as technical training colleagues.

Could be existing infrastructure, that includes a new night school cohort? The sooner the better and the sooner the least costly!

As we put the nation back to work in import replacing production and export production.

Those two will ensure we can draw down whatever debt created to enable this very outcome!
Alan B.

Alan B.,

NO PAUSE!

Just millions of cashed up Chinese. Andrew Forrest sent the message a couple of weeks ago about who is running the country: the Chinese Communist Party.

A Chinese Australia is the new normal so get used to it and keep practising "Ni Hao cobber!"