Australia does have a migration challenge – but it’s not what One Nation and the Coalition think it is
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Australia is flirting with the idea of something it has never done: deliberately driving net overseas migration into reverse.
In the history of our immigrant nation, extended periods of more people leaving our shores than arriving have only happened during convulsive moments: economic collapses, wars, and pandemics.
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