Immigration

Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee today. I’d like to set out some broader economic context for the bill and its intent to alleviate the crippling worker shortage facing our nation. Forthcoming research by the Institute of Public Affairs has established the significant economic challenges facing Australia, which this bill seeks to alleviate. New private sector

This article was originally published in The Spectator Australia. In this article, Saxon Davidson contextualises and disseminates the findings of the IPA’s research into Australia’s worker shortage crisis, and how that affects Australia’s economic freedom and prosperity. The IPA has been dedicated to preserving and strengthening the foundations of economic freedom through research and analysis since its inception in 1943. On

Cutting red tape, rather than immigration, should be the principled and consistent solution to lowering prices and improving housing affordability. Unfortunately, it seems politicians are more concerned with suppressing competition rather than freeing our housing markets. Tony Abbott has said the government could ease housing demand by scaling back immigration “at least until land release and infrastructure can keep up”.