Australia has never driven migration into reverse by design. Would slamming the brakes on be calamitous?
The Guardian reports: Australia does have a migration challenge – but it’s not what One Nation and the Coalition think it is Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast 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. A depression in the early 1890s and its aftermath pushed annual net overseas migration below zero on average over the 15 years to 1906.
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The Guardian reports: Australia does have a migration challenge – but it’s not what One Nation and the Coalition think it is Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast 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. A depression in the early 1890s and its aftermath pushed annual net overseas migration below zero on average over the 15 years to 1906.