The government’s migration policy prioritises knee-jerk politics over careful planning
imamember/Getty Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announced the government’s long-awaited migration policy yesterday. It’s been a week dominated by the topic, with One Nation unveiling its policy on Monday, too. The government’s proposed settings appear to be knee-jerk reactions to reducing net overseas migration (often referred to as NOM), rather than being based on careful modelling of labour demand and migration impacts on infrastructure. Grattan on Friday: Burke delivers overdue migration…
Exact coordinates
australia: -25.270, 133.780
canada: 56.130, -106.350
Read it at The Conversation See this on the map
What might happen next? AI-generated
These scenarios are written by an AI language model from the headline and summary above. They are not predictions from the newsroom, and they are not evidence of anything. Every one is given a deadline and checked against later coverage, and the score is published on the ledger — including the ones that miss.
ForecastGeo shows the headline and summary published by the newsroom and places the story on a map. The full article lives at the source.