The past 12 months have seen all sides of politics cohere around the consensus articulated in the introduction to Burke’s address by the press club’s president, Tom Connell: “there is furious agreement over a need for a cut to immigration.”
In fact, judging by the tenor of current debate, it would be easy to think that immigration is the only economic lever available to the government to address housing affordability, falling wages and cost-of-living pressures.
Burke set the scene for future blame-shifting.
The government has repeatedly floated the idea of legislating a 30-day window on asylum applications, needing new migrants to make a claim at once or miss out.
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Migrants didn’t design the tax breaks that transformed housing into an asset, allowing investors to drive up prices and control distribution through property hoarding. As long as public debate remains fixated on immigration numbers, the bigger policy questions that could transform the lives of working people will remain unanswered.
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It can be tempting to blame grievance politics or the rise of One Nation for the tenor of current debate, but these are symptoms of a deeper malaise.
W hen the immigration minister, Tony Burke, approached the National Press Club podium on Thursday, the eyes of every migrant in the country would have been fixed on him.
The past 12 months have seen all sides of politics cohere around the consensus articulated in the introduction to Burke’s address by the press club’s president, Tom Connell: “there is furious agreement over a need for a cut to immigration.” The only difference across the political spectrum is in the detail: who deserves to be cut, and who is valuable or otherwise deserving enough to remain.
In fact, judging by the tenor of current debate, it would be easy to think that immigration is the only economic lever available to the government to address housing affordability, falling wages and cost-of-living pressures.
Migrants didn’t mastermind the attacks on collective bargaining that have seen union membership and real wages plummet over the past two decades.
But as long as public debate remains fixated on immigration numbers, the bigger policy questions that could transform the lives of working people will remain unanswered.
Burke set the scene for future blame-shifting. For decades, governments have re-geared the migration system towards temporary migration and shifted the goalposts on permanent residency.
The government has repeatedly floated the idea of legislating a 30-day window on asylum applications, needing new migrants to make a claim at once or miss out.
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