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Washington Examiner'We're hoping to follow in your footsteps': Trump praises Australian immigration systemWashington ExaminerPresident Trump praised his Australian counterpart on Friday for the success of his country's merit-based immigration system, a model he has pushed Congress to replicate in the United States. “I want to thank you for your commitment to immigration ...Trump, Australian PM praise each other on immigration and taxesCTV NewsTrump praises Australia's merit-based immigration systemWashington Timesall 441 news articles »

Scott Morrison part of Canberra conspiracy to keep immigration rates highThe AustralianBut I have come to the conclusion that there is an immigration conspiracy going on involving Canberra bureaucrats and politicians, among others, who are only too happy to overstate the benefits of immigration while downplaying the costs. And there is ...

Daily TelegraphIt's time for a plebiscite on immigrationDaily TelegraphLast year the nation came together over the issue of same-sex marriage in a much derided but, for equality advocates, ultimately successful plebiscite. And aside from a few isolated instances of bad behaviour on both sides, a mature, positive debate ...Infrastructure Australia wades into Tony Abbott's immigration debateThe GuardianImmigration: Bigger is certainly not better for AustraliaThe AustralianBlaming immigrants for unemployment, lower wages and high house prices is too simplisticThe Conversation AUYourMortgage.com.au -NEWS.com.auall 26 news articles »

The GuardianInfrastructure Australia wades into Tony Abbott's immigration debateThe GuardianSenior Coalition colleagues, including past and present immigration ministers, the acting prime minister and the minister for trade, all criticised Abbott's comments. But their public rebukes only encouraged the former PM to dig in deeper, insisting he ...It's time for a plebiscite on immigrationDaily TelegraphImmigration: Bigger is certainly not better for AustraliaThe AustralianBlaming immigrants for unemployment, lower wages and high house prices is too simplisticThe Conversation AUYourMortgage.com.au -Armidale Express -nestegg.com.auall 20 news articles »

The AustralianTony Abbott: I know more about winning elections than anyoneThe AustralianTrade Minister Steve Ciobo said my argument was “lazy” and “inaccurate” because migrants have brought prosperity to Australia. No one denies this, Steve, but does that mean that immigration must always add a city the size of Adelaide to our population ...

YourMortgage.com.auShould immigration levels be drastically reduced?YourMortgage.com.auFormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott has called for Australia to drastically reduce immigration levels from the current 190,000 to 110,000 people each year. He argued that doing so would improve living standards and boost housing affordability for ...Embrace migrants or fall behind: reportBendigo Advertiserall 5 news articles »

MacroBusiness (blog)What's the “optimal” immigration intake for Australia?MacroBusiness (blog)McDonald also stated “that there were difficulties in the late 1980s when net migration rose for just two years to over 150 000 per annum” and that “a sustained net migration level of 120 000 per annum is at the high end of what Australia seems to be ...Migration 'key to offset losses of an ageing workforce' - The AustralianThe Australianall 2 news articles »

Populist calls to cut immigration are naiveThe AustralianMisinformation pervades the immigration debate. Our formal immigration quota, about two-thirds of which is skilled rather than family-based, has been fixed at 190,000 for at least four years, suggesting its footprint is already shrinking. Much higher ...and more »

The GuardianLiberal frontbench spat breaks out over Abbott's 'lazy' immigration viewsThe Guardian... grievances to be aired – even among traditional allies. While the rift within the National party intensifies ahead of Joyce's return to work on Monday, its senior Coalition partner is weathering its own storm, as former prime minister Tony Abbott ...Abbott's anti-immigration push dead, buried and crematedThe AustralianThe big problems with Tony Abbott's call to slash immigrationNEWS.com.auAbbott doubles down over immigrationThe West AustralianABC Local -The Sydney Morning Herald -The Australian Financial Reviewall 76 news articles »

NEWS.com.auThe big problems with Tony Abbott's call to slash immigrationNEWS.com.auBut Liz Allen, a demographer and social researcher at the Australian National University, said the facts speak for themselves. “The economic benefits of our migration intake are clear,” she told news.com.au. “That is, based on research, our current ...Abbott's anti-immigration push dead, buried and crematedThe AustralianLiberal frontbench spat breaks out over Abbott's 'lazy' immigration viewsThe GuardianAbbott doubles down over immigrationThe West AustralianABC Local -The Sydney Morning Herald -Daily Telegraphall 108 news articles »

The AustralianAbbott's anti-immigration push dead, buried and crematedThe AustralianI regard him as a major figure in Australian political history and have written at length of his government's achievements, but his attack on the immigration program, which contradicts much of what he did in government, is 100 per cent wrong. It is ...The big problems with Tony Abbott's call to slash immigrationNEWS.com.auLiberal frontbench spat breaks out over Abbott's 'lazy' immigration viewsThe GuardianAbbott doubles down over immigrationThe West AustralianABC Local -The Sydney Morning Herald -The Australian Financial Reviewall 108 news articles »

NEWS.com.auTony Abbott says Scott Morrison is 'captured' by Treasury ideologyThe AustralianTony Abbott has hit back at his former immigration minister Scott Morrison, accusing the Treasurer of being “captured by his department” after Mr Morrison this morning dismissed Mr Abbott's calls to cut Australia's migration numbers by 80,000 a year ...Is immigration too high in Australia?NEWS.com.auScott Morrison slaps down Abbott over push to slash immigrationThe GuardianPeter Dutton, Scott Morrison dismiss Tony Abbott's call to cut migration to AustraliaABC LocalThe West Australian -The New Daily -Illawarra Mercuryall 22 news articles »

NEWS.com.auIs immigration too high in Australia?NEWS.com.auPopulation expert Bob Birrell, a former Monash University professor and now head of the Australian Population Research Institute, said net overseas migration was responsible for half the growth in households in Melbourne and Sydney. “Therefore it's a ...and more »

SBSDutton proposes civics 'pledge' for schoolchildren, immigration changesSBSNew Australians read a pledge of loyalty when they become citizens, which the prime minister customarily reads out loud with a batch of new citizens every year on Australia Day. “I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs ...and more »

JunkeeTony Abbott's Call To Slash Immigration Is Hypocritical BullshitJunkeeTony Abbott is back on his bullshit, and it's even more pathetically hypocritical and self-serving than ever. The former Prime Minister has taken advantage of Malcolm Turnbull's jaunt to the US this week to remind everyone of his continued existence ...and more »

Belfast TelegraphMorrison rejects Abbott's migration claimsThe Australian"The family component is fairly fixed ... are you going to say to partners that they can't come to Australia when they're married to an Australian?" Mr Morrison also said it was temporary migration driving population growth up, so the government had ...Morrison says skilled migrant intake 'exactly the same' when Abbott was PMSBSall 11 news articles »

ABC OnlineHow John Howard boosted migration and embraced foreign students, in five chartsABC OnlineFormer prime minister Tony Abbott wants Australia to cut its immigration intake to what it was under the Howard government. He told an internet radio station on Tuesday afternoon that "we've got to get the numbers down, and get them down very ...

MacroBusiness (blog)Leith van Onselen talks Abbott's immigration plan on Radio 2GBMacroBusiness (blog)“We need to provide substantial tax incentives to businesses willing to relocate to regional & rural areas and who employ a minimum quota of locals. Government offices and call centres – where staff don't deal in face to face contact, should be ...

The GuardianTony Abbott calls on Peter Dutton to cut Australia's migration intakeThe AustralianTony Abbott has ramped up pressure on the Turnbull government to accept a drastic cut to the nation's migration levels, saying Immigration Minister Peter Dutton could “manage numbers down quite quickly” to help ease local job market and housing ...Tony Abbott to call for immigration cut in speech targeting political ...The GuardianTony Abbott calls for Australia's rate of immigration to substantially reduceDaily TelegraphAbbott calls for lower immigration ratesNEWS.com.auDaily Mailall 14 news articles »