The Migration Mess: Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics…

A recent Redbrige poll revealed that while a majority of Australians think migration has been too high for decades, regardless of who’s in power, the main concern people have at the moment is to quote “Cost of living — number one, number two, number three, number four and number five.” And closely tied to that is housing and health — particularly in regional Australia, where the cost of travelling for specialist medical care compounds the financial squeeze. AMP noted recently, we are still not building enough new homes to keep up with, or catch up to the extra demand stemming from […]