Sky News host Peta Credlin says on the back of the coronavirus crisis Australia must have real economic growth “not treasury’s somewhat fake growth, pump primed by increasing immigration”.
Australia has had an unprecedented 29-year period of economic growth, but “when you look at it, in GDP per capita terms” Australia has experienced “three recessions for individuals”. Ms Credlin said following the health and economic crises, it is clear Australia needs to be “a more self-reliant country in the future,” which does not only mean increasing Australian manufacturing.
“It should also lead to a rethink, about importing people to do the jobs that Australians think, are beneath them”. Real economic growth is not “just importing more people, which to my mind is just a lazy route to growth” which Department of Treasury bureaucrats use “to bamboozle compliant politicians”.
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