Yes Steve but if they didn't lie and become proficient with lying they would never have won the election with 32.6% of the primary vote. They also have outfits like the ABC and the Silly Morning Herald to protect them.

No Stephen S, you are wrong e.g. conflating ABS/Treasury to muddy the water, like most SPA & MB headlines or talking points masquerading as expert insight and analysis.

Ignoring basic rules of research and statistics 101, with uninformed heuristic shortcuts to dog whistle immigration and population to the mass of low info, uneducated and ageing voters, pining for a return to white Australia, the mother country, the LNP or ON and stopping or delaying a transition away from fossil fuels (also see nuclear talking points).

Fact 1: ABS

'Estimates of NOM based on the previous methods and those based on the ‘12/16 month rule’ methodology are not comparable. The key change is the 2006 introduction of the ‘12/16 month rule’ for measuring a person’s residency in Australia, replacing the previous ‘12/12 month rule’.' (keywords, previous data is 'not comparable')

Fact 2: Population Centre within the Treasury

'Australia’s population was 26.8 million at 30 September 2023. This was 2.5 per cent higher than a year earlier, the highest level of growth since the 1950s.' (it's temporary growth, neither permanent nor comparable due to change in methodology)

As the ABS points out, any data before 2006 is not comparable, Treasury analysts have not received the memo or are they undercutting their own expertise, 'education' and Treasurer?

Accordingly, Australia's demographic data and analysis, using the same techniques as climate science denial, have the 'integrity of custard', but keeps the RW MSM, LNP, RWNJs & nativist left in clover.

Seems to me that with 10 Jumbo jets dedicated to bring in migrants
it is definitely time to say STOP !
If it was up to me I would only allow in building industry workers who
can speak English and their family.
In one for one years time I would see if successful, if so repeat.

No doubt the woke will be screaming but I remember a site once that
hardly spoke anything but Italian, Serbian and something else.
Really hard for off job outside contractors.