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The big business lobby for millionaire chief executives wants Australia's 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 picked up on this theme, publishing a new report entitled “Making things in Australia? Not in Vi...