Evonne Moore, ‘Last Post’ letter to the Editor, The Australian, 31 December 2021, page 8: ‘The Defence Department has outsourced its IT management to a Chinese company, a friend told me. No wonder the department has no problems with the Chinese government running the port of Darwin.’
Roshena Campbell, ‘Is Victoria ready to turn the migration tap back on?’, The Age, 23 December 2021.
John Masanauskas, ‘Chinese at centre of Vic exodus, Herald Sun, 20 December 2021, page 8.
Centre for Population, ‘2021 Population Statement’, Commonwealth of Australia, 20 December 2021.
Geoff Chambers, ‘Urgent call by business for boost in migration levels’, The Australian, 20 December 2021, pages 1 and 7. This article drew responses in the ‘Letters’ column on 21 December that disagreed intelligently with the business organisations: ‘High immigration brings blessings and burdens not equally shared among us’.
Harri Honkanen, ‘Danish Martyr Inger Stojberg May Re-Emerge As Immigration Patriot Party Leader’, Vdare, 14 December 2021.
Johannes Leak, ‘Daily cartoon’, The Australian, 13 December 2021, page 11.
Michael Ridd, ‘Population mugging’, Letter to the Editor, The Australian, 13 December 2021, page 10. The text of this short letter reads: ‘The government’s decision to ramp up migration to the crazy levels pre-pandemic should lose them the election if the ALP has the wit to do what is in the national interest and decrease net migration to 50,000 a year or less. Mass immigration depresses wages, has no effect on per capita GDP, dilutes our natural resources endowment, drives up house prices, damages the environment, stretches infrastructure and is widely unpopular. Why do politicians do this to us? If politicians won’t listen to the populace on this matter, can we please have a plebiscite or referendum to take it out of their incompetent hands?’
Troy Bramston, ‘Migrants to power economy in MYEFO update’, The Weekend Australian, 11-12 December 2021, page 1. See also the paper’s Editorial, ‘Economic battlelines set as business investment surges’ (page 18), which summarises: ‘Mr Frydenberg says MYEFO will estimate that net overseas migration will be 120,000 higher across the next two years than forecast in May. The newcomers will increase the skilled workforce in sectors facing shortages and boost consumption, fuelling growth. Measures such as temporarily allowing international students to work more than 40 hours a week in supermarkets and in aged care, and doubling the Pacific Workers program, will help.’
James Campbell, ‘Anthony Albanese won’t back government’s mass immigration plan’, Daily Telegraph, 12 December 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘As migration reopens, wage growth will slow’, The Australian, 7 December 2021, page 11.
Daniel McConnell & Neil Michael, ‘Amnesty for up to 17,000 undocumented migrants to be announced today’, Irish Examiner, 3 December 2021.
Andrew Charlton, ‘Border reopening a chance to reset immigration program’, The Age, 26 November 2021.
Kath Sullivan, ‘ABARES says fruit and vegetable growers productive despite border closures reducing worker numbers’, ABC News, 25 November 2021.
Robert Gottliebsen, ‘Battle for top migrants after Canada changes migration rule, as UK joins race’, The Australian, 25 November 2021, page 21.
Patrck Commins and Max Maddison, ‘Skilled migrants offered citizenship to plug labour gaps’, The Australian, 25 November 2021, page 4.
David Crowe, ‘Voters reveal population concerns ahead of border reopening’, The Age, 24 November 2021. The author reports: ‘The opening of the international border has revived concerns about a big Australia and arrivals from overseas during the pandemic, with 58 per cent of voters backing the idea of restarting migration at a lower level than before the coronavirus. Only 7 per cent of voters want to restart the migration intake at a higher level than in the past …’
Leith van Onselen, ‘Alan Kohler: Immigration reboot a deliberate wage killer’, MacroBusiness, 18 November 2021.
Alan Kohler, ‘Farmers and business demand Morrison give them back their “slaves”’, The New Daily, 18 November 2021.
Nassim Khadem, ‘Housing is expensive now, imagine a market with more migrants. Economists see rent, house price lift in 2023’, ABC News, 17 November 2021.
Sustainable Population Australia, ‘Bulging cities focus of new environmental campaign’, Mirage News, 17 November 2021.
Bill Mitchell, ‘Why flat wages growth tells us nothing about the impact of migration on the labour market’, Bill Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory blog, 16 November 2021.
Philip Cafaro, ‘Just population policies for an overpopulated world’, The Overpopulation Project, 16 November 2021.
Gareth Hutchens, ‘Why are NSW bureaucrats calling for a radical surge in immigration? Here’s their economic logic’, ABC News, 15 November 2021.
Olivia Nater, ‘COP26: Why population matters’, Population Matters, 5 November 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘Big Australia myths leave locals in limbo’, The Australian, 26 October 2021, page 11.
Geoff Chambers, ‘Crime wave risk as borders open, says Reece Kershaw’, The Australian, 26 October 2021, page 2.
Ben Packham, ‘Terrorist recruiters are grooming vulnerable children to carry out violent attacks’, The Australian, 26 October 2021, page 2.
Crispin Hull, ‘Back to rotten politics as usual’, The Canberra Times, 23 October 2021.
Tom Dusevic, ‘Post-Covid, not all aboard the Big Australia express’, Weekend Australian, 23-24 October 2021, pages 13-14.
Andrew Bolt, ‘”Clever immigration policy” must focus on adding skills to Australian labour force’, Sky News, 21 October 2021.
Abul Rizvi, ‘We must fix a few problems before we can increase immigration’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2021.
Shane Wright, ‘A political debate over migration is coming, but will it be rational?’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2021.
Shane Wright and Jennifer Duke, ‘Huge migrant shortfall prompts warning surge in temporary workers could dent wages’, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 October 2021.
Patrick Commins, ‘Alex Hawke flags skilled worker boost’, The Australian, 21 October 2021, page 6.
Terry McCrann, ‘Australia’s “Population Ponzi” is no path to prosperity’, Adelaide Advertiser, 20 October 2021, page 20. The article was also published by The Australian (online) and the Herald Sun, 21 October 2021 (page 49).
Leith van Onselen, ‘Josh Frydenberg revs mass immigration engine’, MacroBusiness, 20 October 2021.
Editorial, ‘Migration is the lazy way to boost economic growth’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 2021.
Shane Geha, ‘We need more immigration – Perrottet is right to seek a big Australia’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 2021.
Shane Wright and Jennifer Duke, ‘Migration rethink: Hike on the cards for post-pandemic recovery’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 October 2021.
Editorial, ‘Skilled migration boosts growth‘, The Australian, 20 October 2021, page 12.
Patrick Commins, ‘Reserve Bank resists pressure to lift interest rates’, The Australian, 20 October 2021, pages 1 and 4. The article includes Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s flagging of a review of the nation’s migration policies, saying there are issues to be addressed “in terms of the size and composition of our migration program”.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Employers choosing migrants over older Australians’, MacroBusiness, 19 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Labor squibs immigration debate’, MacroBusiness, 19 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Plans submitted to flood Australia with international students’, MacroBusiness, 19 October 2021.
James Glynn, ‘Call for higher immigration just “papers over the cracks”‘, The Australian, 19 October 2021, page 20. (Online title: ‘Australian immigration push might meet solid opposition’, published in the Wall Street Journal, 18 October 2021.)
Patrick Commins, ‘Double skilled migrant intake: Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’, The Australian, 19 October 2021, pages 1 and 4.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Attention Phil Coorey: the mainstream, not fringe, wants lower immigration’, MacroBusiness, 18 October 2021.
Abul Rizvi, ‘Population shock: Where the truth resides on immigration‘, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘The Kouk: Perrottet’s 2 million migrants plan “horribly misguided”’, MacroBusiness, 15 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Wages surge across developed world on lower immigration’, MacroBusiness, 15 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘LVO destroys Perrottet’s immigration madness on Bolt Report’, MacroBusiness, 15 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘IA: Immigration needed to build infrastructure for migrants’, MacroBusiness, 15 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Immigration negative before ponzi relaunch’, MacroBusiness, 14 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘80% of NSW voters oppose a bigger population’, MacroBusiness, 14 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Attention politicians: Australians don’t want high immigration’, MacroBusiness, 14 October 2021.
Katharine Betts and Bob Birrell, ‘Politics and the population question during the pandemic’, The Australian Population Research Institute, 14 October 2021.
Frank Chung, ‘Dominic Perrottet says he ‘believes in a big NSW’ after top bureaucrats call for two million migrant surge’, Daily Telegraph, 13 October 2021.
This is very ironic. See the opinion piece that ‘Turncoat’ Perrottet published in The Australian on 2 November 2018 (p. 12): ‘There’s room to grow, but we need breathing space’.
‘Perrottet: “Adding more people isn’t a sustainable economic strategy”’, MacroBusiness, 13 October 2021.
‘Australia would ‘be crazy’ to have ‘explosive’ surge of migrants: Dick Smith’, Sky News, 12 October 2021.
Tom Elliott, ‘Calls for Australia to bring in two million migrants over next five years’, 3AW, 12 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, NSW Government: We need “‘explosive” surge of 2 million migrants’, MacroBusiness, 12 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Population growth “rapidly outstripping” Melbourne infrastructure’, MacroBusiness, 12 October 2021.
Jacob Greber, ‘Australia needs ‘explosive’ surge of 2 million migrants’, Australian Financial Review, 12 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Boris Johnson chooses wage growth over mass immigration’, MacroBusiness, 8 October 2021.
Leith van Onselen, ‘Study: Immigration suppresses wages, raises cost of living’, MacroBusiness, 6 October 2021.
‘Growing cities feeling the heat’, The Australian, 6 October 2021, page 9. This article reports on research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science which found that ‘rapid population growth and global warming are increasing exposure to extreme heat in cities, aggravating health problems and making moving to urban areas less beneficial for the world’s poor.’
Geoff Chambers, ‘Regional processing of Australia’s illegal arrivals in Papua New Guinea to end’, The Australian, 6 October 2021, pages 1-2.
Tony Abbott, ‘So, here’s a real agenda to take to the next election’, The Australian, 1 October 2021, page 11.
Tony Abbot had the chance, as Prime Minister, to make significant improvements to Australia’s population problems, but he failed to drive down immigration. His apologists claim that he was ousted too soon. Be that as it may, he now claims to be on the side of low immigration, and in this article advocates a return to ‘Howard era levels’. This is disingenuous, or deliberately vague. It is certainly ambiguous. Does he mean the level of 1997-1998 (when Net Overseas Migration was 79,162) or the level of 2006-2007 (when NOM was 232,796)? Both periods were clearly within the Howard era…
Robert Gottliebsen, ‘As migration stalls, Australia loses out to UK’, The Australian, 29 September 2021, page 20.
Stephen Lunn, ‘Families fill gap left by absent skilled migrants’, The Australian, 21 September 2021, page 6. This article reports that ‘A plunge in skilled migration brought on by pandemic travel restrictions has allowed the federal government to increase the number of family visas issued to their highest level in at least a decade.’ Drawing on the Department of Home Affairs Migration Report 2020-21, the author notes that ‘Overall, there were 160,000 in Australia’s permanent migrant intake in the last financial year, up 20,000 from 2019-20. China became the top country for permanent migrants in 2020-21 for the first time since at least 2015, overtaking India. Hong Kong soared up the rankings from 23 to eight.’
Mackenzie Scott, ‘Lack of migration weighs on housing market’, The Australian – Real Commercial supplement, 19 August 2021, page 2.
Leith van Onselen, ‘RBA economists: Immigration lowers wages’, MacroBusiness, 17 August 2021.
Crispin Hull, ‘The decline of Federal authority’, The Canberra Times, 14 August 2021.
Nick Cater, ‘Optimism rises from ashes of pandemic’, The Australian, 9 August 2021, page 13. This article discusses findings from the Ipsos survey What Worries the World? (June 2021). Cater hints at the possibility that Australians’ current optimism is linked to the closure of our borders to unassimilable migrants, noting that Sweden’s soft-border policy towards refugees since 2015 correlates with shocking increases in crime and gun violence in the suburbs and towns where those new migrants have settled: ‘A report by philanthropic organisation The Good Society early this year found that the number of crimes committed by immigrants outnumbered those of Swedish-born criminals in absolute terms.’
James Madden and Sophie Elsworth, ‘Call to ‘embed’ SBS with migrants as Covid messaging struggles to cut through’, The Australian, 9 August 2021, page 21.
Angela Shanahan, ‘Post-pandemic, we’ll need a boost from immigration’, The Weekend Australian, 7-8 August 2021, page 19.
Todd Bensman, ‘July Apprehension Numbers Have Entered Historic Crisis Level’, Centre for Immigration Studies, 3 August 2021.
C’est de la folie, ‘The Conversation descends to codswallop on immigration and wages’, MacroBusiness, 3 August 2021.
Peter Martin, ‘Top economists say cutting immigration is no way to boost wages’, The Conversation, 1 August 2021.
Emily Ashton and Kitty Donaldson, ‘Boris Johnson Defends U.K. Lifeboats Facing Migrant Rescue Backlash’, Bloomberg, 29 July 2021.
Lauren Lewis, ‘Two Syrians and an Iraqi are accused of beating and gang-raping an 18-year-old in Germany: Outcry as the trio are allowed out on bail’, Daily Mail, 27 July 2021.
‘Sweden is being shot up’, The Economist, 24 July 2021.
Jack Hadfield, ‘Rep. Paul Gosar Announces He Is Sponsoring 10 Year Immigration Moratorium Bill’, National File, 23 July 2021.
Peta Credlin, ‘We need to talk about immigration policy’, The Australian, 22 July 2021, page 11. This article concludes: ‘I think the passivity of our citizens has just about reached its limit and any government intending to restore immigration levels without asking the public first may be shocked by the backlash. With the borders closed, we have a rare moment in history to have a proper debate about the future size of this country and the migrant skills mix before we just resume business as usual. It’s no coincidence that there’s a government report or plan on almost every aspect of life, yet Australia is without a nationally agreed population plan. That should tell you everything about what they don’t want you to know. And why no debate is encouraged.’ (Click HERE for PDF of full article, and HERE for the Letters in response that were published on 23 July under the heading ‘Populate and perish should be the new mantra’.)
Judith Sloan, ‘Maths doesn’t lie: Big Australia will be a fiscal drain’, The Australian, 13 July 2021, page 11. This article analyses in depth the fifth Intergenerational Report’s promotion of ‘ramped-up immigration as some sort of panacea’ for the Australian economy, and concludes: ‘there’s something deeply unethical about attempting to lure the cream of the crop among workers from developing countries – they could use their services – to come here in order to pay taxes to cover the cost of government services which we receive but don’t want to pay for. Either cut back on these government services – something that should have been canvassed in the IGR – or get the locals to pay for them directly or pay more tax. As former Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks has said, “What is clear is that immigration policy is too important to be devised primarily on fiscal grounds or in relative seclusion.”’
Peta Credlin, ‘Remember leadership? We need it now’, The Australian, 8 July 2021, page 11. The author’s analysis of current issues includes these observations: ‘One of the real problems over the past couple of decades has been the decline of Treasury, which used to be the intellectual powerhouse of the Australian public service but which is now fixated on high immigration as the one fail-safe route to economic growth. While pre-pandemic Australia had had only three quarters of negative growth since the 1991 recession, there had been 20 quarters of falling GDP per capita, because population increases via immigration have just papered over the cracks. It explains the political reality of why people have felt poorer even while the country apparently grew richer. The past decade’s record high immigration has coincided with record low productivity growth; yet Treasury tells any government that wants to cut or to refocus the program that it has to “fund” any change. Is it any wonder that distracted politicians give up?’
James Kirby, ‘Could missing migrants choke housing rebound?’, The Australian, 8 July 2021, page 20. The author observes: ‘There is one major difference between this year and 2015: with locked borders there are virtually no immigrants underpinning the market strength. On rough estimates the immigrant population can be expected to take up about 50,000 dwellings across Australia each year. So far, the [residential housing] market has taken the absence of about 140,000 skilled immigrants a year in its stride.’
Judith Sloan, ‘Feds need to back out of the urban carpark space’, The Australian, 6 July 2021, page 11. The author notes: ‘… here’s another irony attached to the commuter carparks (and to the Urban Congestion Fund more generally): rising urban congestion is mainly the federal government’s fault through its years of promoting excessive immigration leading to extremely high rates of population growth. When the population was allowed to grow by about 400,000 a year (another Canberra) each year, with two-thirds of this increase the result of net overseas migration, what did the politicians think would happen to urban congestion? This is particularly the case as most migrants piled into Melbourne and Sydney.’
Ross Gittins, ‘Our aspirations for a Big Australia need a big trim’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 July 2021.
Gemma Parry, ‘Former head of Germany’s spy agency slams Angela Merkel’s immigration policies as “fatal” and says country is “declining politically and economically”‘, Daily Mail Australia, 3 July 2021.
Crispin Hull, ‘Govt flails as spin unravels’, Canberra Times, 3 July 2021. The article concludes with some observations on the fifth Inter-generational report and the effects on the Budget of the ageing population: ‘Its solution, of course, was to increase immigration to the cheers of the property and retail sectors and big business generally, who want to see demand rise and wages fall. For more than a decade I have been rabbitting on about the perils of high population growth caused by high immigration, with very few others sounding the same warning. But this week noted economics writers from the centre-left (Ross Gittins of The Sydney Morning Herald) and centre right (Judith Sloan of The Australian) have joined the warnings. Better to age gracefully than have a migrant blitz, Sloan wrote. The pandemic has shown we can do without high immigration. Employment is booming; unemployment falling; and wages rising, despite the pandemic, and despite all the predictions of mainstream economists who have got this hopelessly wrong. Young people require 18 years of high dependency and cost a lot more (mainly in education) than over-65s who mostly fund themselves. High immigration with its attendant infrastructure costs will be a much bigger drain on the federal budget than an ageing population. Other countries have managed without it.’
‘Sweden Stunned by Rare Shooting of Police Officer as Gang Violence Worries Grow’, USNews, 1 July 2021.
David Siders, ‘Republicans go all-in on immigration as a political weapon’, Politico, 30 June 2021.
Ross Gittins, ‘New report’s big news on population will worry pollies and business but not me’, Sydney Morning Herald, 30 June 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘Intergenerational Report: A society ageing gracefully beats migrant blitz’, The Australian, 29 June 2021, page 11. This article concludes: ‘Given a choice between a gracefully ageing society and rapid population growth boosted by large migrant intakes, many Australians may opt for the former. Politicians may find it worthwhile presenting the alternatives.’
Tom Dusevic, ‘Intergenerational Report: Skilled migrants essential, says Josh Frydenberg’, The Australian, 29 June 2021, page 4.
Josh Frydenberg, ‘Productivity, population crucial’, The Australian, 28 June 2021, page 9.
Australia’s intergenerational reports can be found here: https://treasury.gov.au/intergenerational-report
Simon Benson and Patrick Commins, ‘Australia’s population to shrink over next 40 years, budget deficit for decades’, The Australian, 28 June 2021, page 1.
Peter Martin, ‘Intergenerational report to show Australia older, smaller and more in debt’, The Conversation, 27 June 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘Return to high migrant intake is a wages killer’, The Australian, 22 June 2021, page 11.
This article concludes: ‘The government should not be afraid to engage in an open debate with the Australian people. It might even be an election-winning policy to propose much lower levels of immigration.’ We add a resounding ‘Hear hear!’ to this suggestion.
‘Tough love needed on borders’, Editorial, The Australian, 16 June 2021, page 10.
Judith Sloan, ‘Tidal wave of overseas students must stop’, The Australian, 8 June 2021, page 11.
Sloan’s observations on our current situation would have resonated with the Roman Emperor Diocletian. He devised procedures that aimed to check the credentials of students arriving in Rome in 370 CE. (Our scanned PDF of the procedures comes from page 338 of Peter Jones’ book, Veni, Vidi, Vici: Everything you ever wanted to know about the Romans, Atlantic Books, 2014.)
‘The Drum’, ABC TV, 7 June 2021. These segments with Abul Rizvi focus on (at the 26-minute mark) recent changes to temporary migration in Australia and (at the 43-minute mark) the Business Investment & Innovation Program, and run through to the 58-minute mark.
Crispin Hull, ‘Immigration is not the key to Australia’s prosperity’, Canberra Times, 5 June 2021.
Hilary Harper, ‘Talkback: Is Australia’s population getting too big?’, Life Matters, ABC Radio National, 31 May 2021.
Brendan Coates, Henry Sherrell & Will Mackey, ‘Rethinking permanent skilled migration after the pandemic’, Grattan Institute, 30 May 2021.
Jordan Baker and Laura Chung, ‘Sikhs defend students’ right to carry ceremonial daggers at school’, The Age, 17 May 2021.
Crispin Hull, ‘Brainless budget fails to address key issues’, Canberra Times, 15 May 2021.
Shane Wright & Lisa Visentin, ‘Border closure to cost country 174,000 new migrants’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 May 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘Pandemic proves ‘Big Australia’ is a mistake’, The Australian, 11 May 2021, page 11.
Michael Sexton, ‘Politicians take the free speech gag even further’, The Australian, 11 May 2021, page 11.
David Crowe, ‘Budget plan: Australia to open borders next year to bring back migrants’, The Age, 10 May 2021.
Charlotte Grieve, ‘”Get them to work”: NAB boss calls for skilled migration to resume’, The Age, 9 May 2021.
Ross Gittins, ‘Our closed borders have turbo-charged the economy’s recovery’, The Age, 7 May 2021.
Veathika Jain, ‘You want skilled migrants, then make them welcome’, The Advertiser, 6 May 2021.
Leith Van Onselen, ‘Bosses demand separate quarantine facilities for foreign workers’, MacroBusiness, 6 May 2021.
Christopher F Rufo, ‘What critical race theory is really about’, New York Post, 6 May 2021.
Remy Varga, ‘Proposed hate laws “attack on freedom”‘, The Weekend Australian, 1-2 May 2021, page 7.
‘Muslim population in Germany rises to nearly 5.5 million’, Daily Sabah, 28 April 2021.
Dana Kennedy, ‘Inside the growing underground network of parents fighting ‘anti-racism’ in NYC schools’, New York Post, 24 April 2021.
Karl Quinn, ‘Indigenous academic apologises for calling African crime study “racist”‘, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 April 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘Government clearly planning a return to high immigration’, The Australian, 13 April 2021, page 11.
Chris Jewers, ‘Migrants will be required to speak Swedish to become citizens under new laws the country is expected to bring in this summer’, Daily Mail Australia, 9 April 2021.
Tess McClure, ‘New Zealand suspension of travel from India questioned amid fears of racist backlash’, The Guardian Australia, 9 April 2021.
Abul Rizvi, responding to Ross Garnaut’s new book (Reset), comments on how to approach the setting of levels for Australian immigration: The Drum, ABC News, 8 April 2021. (Garnaut book is introduced at 32 minutes 36 seconds, and Rizvi on immigration at the 39 minute mark.)
Letters to the Editor, ‘Prepare to feel Sydney’s squeeze’, The Canberra Times, 30 March 2021.
Abul Rizvi, ‘Morrison’s forthcoming ‘U-turn’ on migration’, Independent Australia, 22 March 2021.
Richard Ferguson, ‘MPs’ plan to boost number of foreign workers and secure spots in quarantine for skilled migrants’, The Australian, 19 March 2021, page 4. [Click HERE to find a link to reports by the Australian Parliament’s Joint Committee on Migration.]
Stephen Lunn, ‘Plunging migration leads to first population decline in 40 years’, The Australian, 19 March 2021, page 4.
Matthew Cranston, ‘Door opens for skilled migrants but unions say it’s a disgrace’, Australian Financial Review, 18 March 2021.
‘‘Fighting “parallel societies”? Danish government wants to cap number of ‘non-western’ residents in neighborhoods at 30%’, RT.com, 18 March 2021.
Stephen Lunn, ‘Coronavirus Australia: Migrants’ choice: food or medicine’, The Australian, 10 March 2021, page 5.
Jill Rowbotham, ‘Refugees and asylum seekers need targeted help to get to university’, The Australian, 10 March 2021, page 21.
‘Calls for undocumented agricultural workers to be granted visas’, ABC NewsRadio, 5 March 2021.
Lesley Beckhouse, ‘Pause immigration’, Letter to the editor, The Australian, 3 March 2021, page 10.
Leith Van Onselen, ‘The shills are beating the drum for mass immigration’, MacroBusiness, 2 March 2021.
Shamim Malekmian, ‘Undocumented Migrants Can Apply For Regularisation By End of 2021, Says Minister Helen McEntee’, Hot Press (Republic of Ireland), 22 February 2021.
‘Sudanese refugee kills French immigration official after asylum request rejected’, Reuters, 20 February 2021.
Charles Davis, ‘Biden calls for accepting as many as 125,000 refugees per year — more than 8 times the number accepted under Trump’, MSN News, 5 February 2021.
Levi Parsons, ‘Two 15-year-old schoolgirls are “gang raped by ten men”‘, Daily Mail Australia, 30 January 2021.
Judith Sloan, ‘UK can do better than copy us on migration’, The Australian, 12 January 2021, page 9.
Lucy Cane, ‘Capitol mob sees itself as fighting for democracy’, The Australian, 12 January 2021, page 9.
This author provides an insight into the effects of migration on the USA: ‘The racialised aspects of Trumpism revolve around concerns about ongoing demographic change: the proportion of the US population that is non-Hispanic white is now about 60 per cent, and it continues to decrease. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to reduce Trumpism solely to a white supremacist attack on democracy. His supporters have also been mobilised by concerns about genuinely anti-democratic features of US politics. This is why they can convince themselves they are defending democracy.’
Alan Dupont, ‘Only a resilient democracy could have survived the mob violence’, The Australian, 11 January 2021, page 9.
Commenting on the ‘unprecedented scenes of mayhem and wanton destruction in Washington’s Capitol building’ on 6 January, Dupont observes: ‘If the US is a country at war with itself, so are many other leading democracies. The cancel culture intolerance that infects them is symptomatic of societies tribalising along racial, ethnic and identity lines rather than being united by common interests, values, traditions and institutions. In attempting to heal his country, Biden may find activists in his own party as much of a problem as the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol.’
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