I have an impersonator. Please note that posts from @Leithivo are fake.

“Tony Burke claims it's 'absurd' to suggest Australia is a ‘mass immigration’ country. It's a George Costanza moment from Seinfeld: it's not a lie if you believe it.” 👇 dailymail.com/news/article-1… #auspol

Tony Burke claims it’s ‘absurd’ to say ‘Australia is a nation of mass migration’. In 1998 the ABS forecast the population in 2051 would land between 23.5m & 26.4m. It went above 28m in June this year, 25 years before it was forecast to hit 23.5m. Why? Because of mass migration.

Never thought I would see the day but old mate Abul Rizvi says there are good points to One Nation’s immigration policy. One of the main architects of Australia’s current immigration settings.

We are sliding toward a dark place increasingly swiftly. It's the most unsurprising thing to see the growing backlash against the political establishment across the developed world result in government pushing for more control over what we see and hear.

Highest level of per capita migration by far, worst per capita growth since comparable records began. This is what economic and policy failure looks like. *In fairness the pandemic artificially boosted the average Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison growth rate

Noah says "Aging, rather mechanically, creates a burden for young people, because you have more retirees who have to be supported by each worker, either through taxes or through family support." But that's not true. The share of the population not working and being economically burdensome on others is lower than ever, because we start and finish work later in life. fresheconomicthinking.com/p/…

Terribly sad news, we younger economists all knew of him coming up and I am pleased to say I got to know him a bit late in his career, a great economist, intellect and markets personality. westpac.com.au/news/making-n…

My wrap of this week's housing market data. macrobusiness.com.au/2026/07…

Rizvi has regularly insulted others who use NPLT arrivals data as a leading indicator of net overseas migration. And now he is doing the same thing. So now it's not misleading? Weird

Net long term and permanent arrivals on a rolling 12 month basis charted against in growth in asking rents YoY from Cotality (lagged 3 months). Speaks for itself really.

@leithvo has covered this issue extensively over the years and was recently interviewed by SBS on this topic. Link to that segment below. There are also all manner of articles on this by Leith at Macrobusiness.com.au If they are looking for something more mainstream to share, I recommend this report from KPMG which covers the balance of housing supply and demand. kpmg.com/au/en/insights/econ… They conclude that even prior to Covid we were already not building enough homes by quite a large margin, this divergence between their analysis and say those of various Treasury's is due to the fact that they factor in changing household demographics, while others overwhelmingly do not. I hope that proves to be assistance. piped.video/watch?v=JPQAymfq…

Yes supply needs to be increased that’s the denominator, it’s slow moving and faces headwinds from far too much bureaucracy, high costs and now higher interest rates. But there’s the numerator, demand in the form of population growth - if the pandemic showed us anything you can move that quite quickly should you desire to do so.

This is a completely reasonable position yet I can't imagine anyone from the major political parties saying something like this, let alone making an argument to changes our immigration policies to something resembling this.

Compare @leithvo’s answer to the Director of the ANU Migration Hub Professor, Alan Gamlen. He doesn’t have one. He calls you stupid, appeals to his authority, and puts up a straw-man argument. Alan, we 51.5% of our population was either born overseas or has a parent born overseas. We have the highest immigration in the OECD. People are imagining things. This isn’t normal.

'ANU elites tell Aussies to ‘suck it’ on immigration' macrobusiness.com.au/2026/03…

Wow! Mask off moment for the woke lefties at the Universities re migration. Essentially fuck what the average voter wants on the migration debate and they’re glad big business has money and power to sway the public conversation to keep net migration high. Maybe the should ask themselves WHY big business likes high migration because I’ll tell them. It adds to more supply of labour which pushes down wages and there’s no need for big business to innovate or change to compete and grab market share if there’s just more people to sell their products too. It’s Heaps funny what people in politics will say when they think only people that agree with them are listening. It’s exactly what Abul Rizvi did when confessing he ramped up migration himself in the early 00’s against the public’s wishes AND the property industry does the exact same thing on their podcasts about screwing renters and fucking everybody that isn’t an investor.

Without overseas migration Sydney would have a shrinking population. Now lets say in a decade a new estate is being built, it needs roads, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. The vast majority of the cost of that infrastructure would be attributed by Treasury to the migrants who expanded the population and drove its construction, right? No. It gets attributed across the entire population and the actual migrant share is reduced based on the duration of their total expected time in Australia. So the vast majority of a rail line out to a suburb that wouldn't need one without migration is attributed to the existing populace. This is why the modelled benefits of migration by Treasury dont actually hold water. They dont hold up to basic logical scrutiny. Far more on this in detail from @leithvo linked below. macrobusiness.com.au/2024/06…

Have a listen. One of these people understands energy. One is captured by an ideology, and is incapable of processing new information that challenges their priors. Make your mind which is which.

Wasn’t the government essentially able to stop migration straight away during the pandemic? Why couldn’t they therefore control things more than they did once the borders re-open? They issue visas, everyone who comes to the country has to pass through passport control.

Why do you attack anyone with an opinion on migration and attack any political party other than the one in power that got people so resentful towards migration?