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Only much lower migration will improve migration outcomes: SPA

The Migration System Review will not fix the problems of migrant worker exploitation, visa wait times nor skills shortages, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). The review report, led by former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, does not explicitly discuss the scale of the migration program. But scale is the most important factor affecting outcomes, according …

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For how long will Treasurer Jim Chalmers keep hiking immigration?

In light of the latest statement from Treasurer Jim Chalmers about needing to lift net overseas migration (NOM) even more than the 235,000 cited in the Budget, Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) is asking: just how many more immigration hikes will there be? At the Jobs and Skills Summit in September, the Treasurer hiked permanent …

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Keep population below 30 million for environment and wellbeing

Response to new Centre for Population report Australia must stabilise its population below 30 million to stop the growing impacts on climate and biodiversity, as well as preserve quality of life, according to the environment organisation Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). SPA president, Ms Jenny Goldie, was commenting on the latest report from the …

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Change migration system to stop rorting: new submission

Reforms to stop rorting of Australia’s migration system are urgently needed, according to a new submission to a government review. Caps on the proportion of overseas students in all university courses, increased minimum wage thresholds for temporary skilled migrants, measures to stop rorting of skill migration visas, and tightening of family reunion criteria are …

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Population growth may boost GDP but not wellbeing

The forecast increase in annual population growth to 1.4 per cent thanks to restoration of pre-Covid levels of immigration may boost total GDP but not individual well-being, says Sustainable Population Australia (SPA). Treasury forecasts GDP will rise by 3.25 per cent in 2022/23 before dropping back to 1.5 per cent in 2023/24. Much of …

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Jobs summit: set immigration level in context of how many people this continent can support

In the lead-up to the Jobs and Skills Summit, an environmental advocacy group has called on the Treasurer Jim Chalmers to resist pressures to accelerate Australia’s population growth with a massive increase in immigration. The national president of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA), Ms Jenny Goldie, says that lower population growth, and a stabilised population size …

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Jobs summit: Boost salaries for skilled migrants to end rorts

Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) has called on the Jobs and Skills Summit to resist pressures to accelerate Australia’s population growth with a massive increase in immigration. SPA national president, Ms Jenny Goldie, says pressure by business on the government to lift immigration to 200,000 is more about wage suppression than a genuine solution to skills …

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Skilled migrant shortage a sham: New Briefing Note

Claims that skills shortages require massive increases in the skilled migrant intake do not stand up to scrutiny, according to a new Briefing Note prepared by Leith van Onselen, Chief Economist at MacroBusiness. The Note, commissioned by Sustainable Population Australia, comes as employer groups and some government members are angling to ramp up skilled …

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Big majority of Australians reject Big Australia

Australians have decisively rejected returning to pre-covid levels of high immigration and high population growth according to the latest survey by TAPRI (The Australian Population Research Institute). The survey finds that 70 percent of Australians have rejected the annual net migration of 240,000 people prior to COVID-19 as too high. More significantly, 69 percent …

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What Australia does NOT need is an explosion of immigrants: SPA

Media release in response to Dominic Perrottet Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) emphatically rejects the call by new NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet for an explosion of new immigrants – a doubling of pre-Covid annual intakes over five years. The NSW Premier’s call is at odds with several learned economists, including Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe, Professor …

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