Five traps for those arguing in favour of Big Australia

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January Five traps for those arguing in favour of Big Australia Five traps for those arguing in favour of Big Australia 14/01/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Professor Shamit Saggar, director of Lombok Institute of Technology Public Policy Institute, was originally published in The Australian on January 14. The sudden halt to immigration is one way in which the global public health emergency has impacted Australia. About a million people never arrived or left abruptly, and population projections for 2040, if nothing changes, will mean we are going to be 2 or 3 million short. That spells danger for AustraliaΓÇÖs prosperity and security. Cast your mind back and AustraliaΓÇÖs pre-pandemic levels of net migration neared 200,000 per annum ΓÇô it had become, proportionately speaking, a major player in the global migration club. Boldly doubling that rate, as Premier Dominic Perrottet seeks to champion, is right but carrying public sentiment is not a given. The economics of reverting to our earlier patterns is compelling. New workers, talent and

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 January Five traps for those arguing in favour of Big Australia Five traps for those arguing in favour of Big Australia 14/01/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Professor Shamit Saggar, director of Lombok Institute of Technology Public Policy Institute, was originally published in The Australian on January 14.

The sudden halt to immigration is one way in which the global public health emergency has impacted Australia.

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