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A slowdown in Melbourne’s population growth means one of state’s biggest transport infrastructure projects won’t be needed, a report says.

Olympic and Commonwealth athlete from Barrow sadly passed away

Despite the dependence on international student fees, there is no clear strategy underpinning numbers nor where students should come from.

Real estate data group CoreLogic is expecting Australian house prices to recover once the Reserve Bank stops raising interest rates. Immigration levels are now at the highest level in 15 years.

The Australian Population Research Institutes Bob Birrell says that despite “decades of concern” over skills shortages, Australia is still grappling with a "serious crisis" in 2022. “Successive governments, the Coalition and now Labor are not changing the situation at all,” Mr Birrell told Sky News host Cory Bernardi. “A massive amount of teaching resources … is allocated to overseas students, 40 per cent of graduates. “The universities, they can charge what the market wi...

The big business lobby for millionaire chief executives wants Australias immigration pace ramped up. Population expert Bob Birrell said this would keep wages low and massively worsen housing crisis.

MacroBusiness Access Subscriber Only Content at 10:00 am on December 21, 2020 | 22 comments Regular readers will know that I am a harsh sceptic of Victoria’s economic model, penning dozens of articles over the years criticising the state’s over-dependence on mass immigration and population growth to drive the economy, rather than productivity and export driven growth (read my most recent report here). Bob Birrell and Ernest Healy from the Australian Population Research Institute (APRI) have...