Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Abel Chikanda, Sujata Ramachandran & Daniel Tevera, Migrants in Countries in Crisis (MICIC): South Africa Case Study: The Double Crisis – Mass Migration From Zimbabwe And Xenophobic Violence in South Africa, 2017, International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna.
Brendan O’Neill, ‘West needs a new response to terror’, The Weekend Australian, 23-24 December 2017. (In the print version, the article starts on p. 13 and is titled ‘Is this the year we gave in to terror on our streets? – Western society needs to feel outrage and to condemn “everyday” violence’.)
Geoff Winestock, ‘Ageing population is no threat: RBA’, Australian Financial Review, 21 December 2017. This article reports a new study by the Reserve Bank of Australia, Ageing and Labour Supply in Advanced Economies, which suggests that immigration is not the only factor involved in ensuring support for a large ageing population: that our society is already starting to adapt to its ageing population scenario through the improved health and longer working lives of the ageing segment – and the consequent ongoing contributions via taxation over that longer period.
Debra Jopson, ‘Their terrifying last moments: A decade of domestic violence deaths in Hindu and Sikh communities’, ABC News, 19 December 2017.
Aneeka Simonis, ‘Calls to toughen deportation laws for foreign teen thugs’, Herald Sun,
Peta Credlin, ‘It’s not racist to be worried about immigration’, News.com.au, 17 December 2017.
Judith Sloan, ‘St Jude and the lost causes worth fighting for’, The Weekend Australian, 16-17 December 2017.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Credlin: Give us a debate and vote on Australia’s population’, MacroBusiness, 15 December 2017.
Rita Panahi in conversation with Steve Price, Nights with Steve Price, Radio 3AW, 14 December 2017.
‘Gang bashes and robs beachgoers in wild brawl on St Kilda foreshore’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 December 2017.
Andrew Greene, ‘Sam Dastyari scandal hits Washington amid growing concerns of Chinese political influence’, ABC News, 14 December 2017.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Net overseas migration to Australia increases 27%’, 14 December 2017. For commentary, see: Joe Kelly, ‘Carlo and Carlito make 24 million of us as immigration surges’, The Australian, 15 December 2017, p. 6.
Roger Boyes, ‘Europe’s migration crisis is Africa’s responsibility too’, The Australian, 7 December 2017, p. 11.
Editorial, ‘Beware UN migration compact’, The Australian, 5 December 2017, p. 13.
AFP, ‘Brexodus: record drop in net migration to UK after Brexit vote’, The Weekend Australian, 2-3 December 2017.
Masako Fukui, ‘Why this Hong Kong-born mother won’t send her kids to selective schools’, Earshot, ABC, 27 November 2021.
Paige Taylor, ‘My arrival at a wretched realisation’, The Weekend Australian, 25-26 November 2017, p. 19. (The online heading for this article is: ‘Asylum-seekers risk all for new life, often for most perverse reasons’.)
Judith Sloan, ‘To fix low wages, and the budget, raise productivity’, The Weekend Australian, 25-26 November 2017. Sloan observes: ‘The high rates of immigration to Australia also may be feeding into low wage growth. While annual net overseas migration has fallen from its peak of close to 300,000 at the height of the mining boom, the number is still close to 200,000, including permanent and temporary workers. With an ample supply of new workers, it is not surprising that many employers are in a position to offer very modest pay rises.’
Sam Duncan, ‘”Overpopulation will destroy Australia”: Dick Smith claims skyrocketing immigration will cause mass unemployment and most of our children “will sell coffee to each other”‘, Daily Mail Australia, 21 November 2017.
Judith Sloan, ‘Big-immigration fan club is devoted to growth myths’, The Australian, 21 November 2017.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Australia becoming “two nations divided by immigration”’, MacroBusiness, 17 November 2017.
Michael Pascoe, ‘One plus one makes more than two: Our overlooked immigration benefits’, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 November 2017.
Judith Sloan, ‘Coalition flunks the big policy achievement test’, The Weekend Australian, 11-12 November 2017. This article includes the following observation: ‘What about immigration? Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, has introduced a series of changes in relation to temporary skilled workers — the old 457 visa category — and he has held the line on strict border control to deter the re-emergence of people-smugglers. But when it comes to the numbers allowed to enter Australia under the permanent migration category, this government has exhibited a tin ear.
The fact is that 190,000 a year is just too high, particularly as the vast majority of these entrants go to Melbourne or Sydney. And at this point the government has shown no inclination at all to reduce this number, even though the minister is aware that many migrants who enter under the skill category are in fact not very skilled at all.’
Rita Panahi, ‘We need an honest discussion about migration and population’, Herald Sun, 8 November 2017.
Tom Kington, ‘Migrants abandon dream of new life to fly home ‘, The Times, 8 November 2017. (This article was also published in The Australian on 9 November (p. 10), under the heading ‘Illegal migrants fly home to escape abuse in Libya’.)
Amanda Vanstone, ‘It’s not racist to speak out about migration’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November 2017.
Chris Mitchell, ‘A lesson for the Liberals in Hanson’s anti-immigration stance’, The Australian, 6 November 2017, p. 11.
Dick Smith, ‘Our size is up for debate’, The Australian, 6 November 2017, p. 12. The online version is entitled: ‘Australia is full to bursting and must rethink immigration’.
Siofra Brennan, ‘Duke of Cambridge insists there are too many people in the world in a passionate speech about population growth – after his father Prince Charles warned the earth can’t “sustain us all”‘, Daily Mail, 4 November 2017.
Campbell Clark, ‘Justin Trudeau rolls the dice on immigration’, The Globe and Mail, 2 November 2017.
Mark McCrindle (with presenters Ross and John), ‘Population growth in Australia 30 years ahead of schedule’, Radio 3AW (Melbourne), 2 November 2017.
Sue-Anne Levy, ‘Flood of refugees takes toll on city finances’, Toronto Sun, 28 October 2017.
Tom Elliott, ‘Tom Elliott calls for more public debate on immigration policy’, Radio 3AW (Melbourne), 26 October 2017.
Neil Mitchell, ‘Sustainable Australia calls for cap on migrants as survey reveals Australians are concerned about rapid population growth’, Radio 3AW (Melbourne), 26 October 2017.
Dick Smith with Mark Levy, ‘Dick Smith on the Population Debate’, Radio 3AW (Melbourne), 26 October 2017.
John Masanauskas, ‘Voters say country is full, support partial ban on Muslim immigration: report’, Herald Sun, 26 October 2017. Details of the full report are:
Katharine Betts and Bob Birrell, ‘‘Australian voters’ views on immigration policy’, Australian Population Research Institute, October 2017.
Rachel Marsden, ‘Immigration Crisis Has Quebec Feeling Under Siege’, Townhall, 25 October 2017.
Rachel Blaxendale, ‘Courts “going soft” on non-citizen criminals’, The Australian, 19 October 2017, p. 2.
Sean Nicholls, ‘Sydneysiders in revolt over development as two-thirds declare the city is “full”‘, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October 2017.
Kevin Donnelly, ‘Multiculturalism and Political Correctness are killing Australia’, Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2017.
David Uren, ‘Uni growth leads the way in record migrant intake’, The Australian, 28 September 2017, p. 7. (Title of the same article online is: ‘Academics led record migrant intake in first net rise since GFC’. The article draws on the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, released 27 September 2017.)
‘Chinese “soft power” influence becomes election issue in New Zealand‘, ‘The World Today’, ABC Radio National, 21 September 2017.
Peter van Onselen, ‘We’ve got to talk about immigration’, The Weekend Australian, 16-17 September 2017, p. 22. (Title of the same article online is: ‘Dick Smith’s immigration campaign is flawed but issue is critical‘.)
Peter Martin, James Ward and Paul Sutton, ‘Why a population of, say, 15 million makes sense for Australia’, The Conversation, 11 July 2017. Note that this article is part of The Conversation‘s series, ‘Is Australia full?’
Liz Allen, ‘Australia doesn’t have a population policy – why?’, The Conversation, 3 July 2017. Note that this article launched The Conversation‘s series, ‘Is Australia full?’
Cheryl Benard, ‘I’ve worked with refugees for decades. Europe’s Afghan crime wave is mind-boggling’, The National Interest, 11 July 2017.
Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders, ‘4 million, 5 million, 8 million: How big is too big for liveable Melbourne?’, The Age, 3 July 2017.
Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders & Clay Lucas, ‘Outer suburbs deprived of as much as $250m in basic services’, The Age, 2 July 2017.
Tony Abbott, ‘Reform in the age of populism – the new battlelines’, speech to the Institute of Public Affairs, 27 June 2017. The speech includes these observations: ‘One of the reasons why statistical growth is not translating into higher living standards is that high immigration means that GDP per head is hardly growing at all. Newcomers in hard-to-fill, high wage, high skill jobs make very good migrants (and should be encouraged) but they’re not the only ones coming. A big slowdown in immigration would allow housing starts and infrastructure to catch up with population.’
Jason Richwine, Immigrant Literacy: Self-Assessment vs. Reality, Center for Immigration Studies, 21 June 2017. This study reveals a large and persistent English literacy gap for immigrants in the USA. It analyses the English literacy level of immigrants living in the U.S. and raises concerns about the magnitude and persistence of low English ability. Not only do 41 percent of immigrants score at or below the lowest level of English literacy, but the U.S.-born children of low-skill immigrants also struggle.
Benedict Collins, ‘Labour would aim to reduce immigration numbers’, Radio New Zealand, 12 June 2017.
Stephen Chavura, ‘We would be doing our Islamic communities a favour to review immigration’, The Australian, 7 June 2017, p. 14. This article concludes: ‘As people lose faith in the experts’ ability to control Muslim radicalisation the popular demand to shut national borders to Muslims, or at least drastically limit their numbers so as not to increase the size of their militant subsection, will grow stronger. Try as they may, even mainstream politicians will be unable to avoid the question of the future of Muslim immigration. As strange as it sounds, if the worst enemy of good Muslims is militant Muslims, carefully reforming our immigration policy may turn out to be one of the best things the government can do for them in the long term.’
Janet Albrechtsen, ‘Defiant tribunal welcomes fake jetset refugees’, The Australian, 31 May 2017, p. 12.
Judith Sloan, ‘Peter Dutton part of the cynical charade on house prices’, The Australian, 30 May 2017, p. 12. She asks: ‘So why wouldn’t the government make the obvious call and reduce this number [i.e. of immigrants under the current program], particularly as this would have given substance to the claim that the pressing issue of housing affordability is being addressed?” and suggests a number of reasons in response to the question, ‘all of them depressing’.
Nick Cater, ‘Tribunal lets migrant riffraff run rings around us’, The Australian, 30 May 2017, p. 12.
Ross Dillon, ‘War with Islam demands a temporary brake on all immigration’, Letter to the Editor, The Australian, 29 May 2017, p. 13.
Jennifer Oriel, ‘Time to confront local Islamists: this is war’, The Australian, 29 May 2017, p. 12.
Douglas Murray, ‘Terror in Manchester: Open door asylum policies can lead to terror’, The Australian, 27 May 2017, pp. 15-17. The author asks: ‘What if the immigration and integration policies of consecutive governments of every political stripe have set up our societies for an endless disaster they can now do little to avert?’ (Murray is the author of The strange death of Europe: immigration, identity, Islam, Blooomsbury, London, 2017. See here for an insightful review of the book from an Australian perspective, and here from one from the American viewpoint. For holdings of the book in Australian libraries, click here.)
Virginia Hale, ‘Doctor Quits Profession After Urging Minorities To Rape Front National Voters to Create “Half-Breeds”’, Breitbart London, 26 May 2017.
‘Non-Western Immigrants Consume 59% Of Denmark’s Tax Surplus’, National Economics Editorial, 23 May 2017.
Gary Johns, ‘Time for Turnbull to play the migration card’, The Australian, 17 May 2017, p. 14.
Caitlyn Gribbin, ‘Peter Dutton blames ‘politics’ as bid to deport six refugees fails’, ABC News, 16 May 2017.
John Masanauskas, ‘Save jobs, cut intake Fresh call to slash migrant numbers’, Herald Sun, 9 May 2017.
Leon Della Bosca, ‘Analysis reveals that $15 billion in welfare is paid to non-citizens’, Your Life Choices, 9 May 2017.
Sally McPherson, ‘Chinese to build new $1bn City between Brisbane and the Gold Coast’, iSeekPlant, 26 April 2017.
Tim Colebatch, ‘Yes, there is such a thing as too much immigration’, Inside Story, 20 April 2017.
Reuters, ‘Germany’s Schaeuble says if Muslim migrants don’t like Europe, go elsewhere’, 12 April 2017.
Bernard Salt, ‘Census 2016: we, the people, are such a fascinating bunch’, The Australian, 12 April 2017. This article reports some of the early-release data from the 2016 Australian census: ‘Victoria attracts immigrants from India, NSW appeals to the Chinese and Queensland, not Bondi, is the preferred destination of New Zealanders’.
Fergus Hunter, ‘Housing affordability: cut immigration and let first home buyers raid their superannuation, says Tony Abbott’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April 2017.
Judith Sloan, ‘Cut immigration by half to improve housing affordability’, The Australian, 8 April 2017.
Michael Pascoe, ‘Politicians eye off housing market as they consider immigration cut’, The Canberra Times, 3 April 2017.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Australia world’s worst money laundering property market’, Macrobusiness, 30 March 2017.
Anthony Keane, ‘Australia’s population to hit 40 million with the next 40 years forecasts Bureau of Statistics’, Herald Sun, 18 March 2017.
Vijeta Uniyal, ‘Merkel’s Migrant Deception’, Gatestone Institute, 15 March 2017.
David Lipson, ‘Counting the economic impacts of immigration’, Lateline, ABC TV, 10 March 2017. (And see HERE for a related interview, with Alex Hawke, Australia’s Assistant Immigration Minister, 9 March 2017.)
Chip Le Grand, ‘Super-cities set to house two in three people’, The Australian, 1 March 2017.
Alan Kohler, ‘Time to step up, Ken Henry’, The Australian, 28 February 2017.
Martin Ruhs and Carlos Vargas-Silva, ‘The Labour Market Effects of Immigration’, The Migration Observatory, 24 February 2017.
Tony Abbott, ‘Speech Notes for [launch of book] Making Australia Right‘, 23 February 2017. In his speech, the former Prime Minister recommended a policy change: ‘cut immigration, to make housing more affordable’. (Click the links for coverage of the speech in the Guardian (23 February) and The Australian (24 February); for book details, see below: December 2016.)
Ken Henry, ‘Australian business leaders must deliver a vision for the future’, speech at CEDA Canberra Economic and Political Overview event, 23 February 2017. Henry said: ‘Australia’s business leaders have to accept responsibility for ensuring that strong population growth, and the investment opportunities that go with it, lift economic and social opportunity for all, without damaging the quality of the environment we pass to future generations’. See also coverage of the speech in The Australian, 24 February 2017.
Michael Koziol, ‘Immigrants to blame for high house prices, businessman Dick Smith claims’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 2017.
Tom Elliott, ‘Now is the time to reduce immigration’, The Mercury, 20 February 2017.
Rosie Lewis, ‘Cory Bernardi says immigration should be halved’, The Australian, 12 February 2017.
Carrington Clarke, ‘RBA governor Philip Lowe hits out at protectionism, urges investment in infrastructure’, ABC News, 9 February 2017.
Natasha Bita, ‘Migrants: Unemployment rate among new Australians doubles’, Daily Telegraph, 1 February 2017.
Jennifer Duke, ‘”Influence has grown”: Chinese developers buy one-third of Australia’s sites in 2016’, Domain, 31 January 2017.
Carrington Clarke, ‘High immigration masks Australian economic decline’, ABC News, 20 January 2017.
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