Stephen Koukoulas
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2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
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It is a bit cyclical.
When your economy is stronger, you can skew that number a little bit higher.
When your economy is weak, you don't want very, very high levels of immigration because it puts downward pressure on wages, it adds to unemployment, the new immigrants can't find a job, and you sort of have a real problem uh in in the sort of macro economy because it's not really easy for the for the new immigrants to find a job.
there's that too.
Uh and part of the uh net migration numbers are humanitarian.
immigration.
You know, we're a pretty rich, very decent country.
And so part of that migration intake is currently around about twenty thousand people a year who are fleeing absolute
Tyranny, poverty, and that's part of our uh ability, if you like, to give these people a chance at life.
And that's a good thing, of course.
I don't think anyone would argue against that.
So that's part of the issue.
But it really is this sort of discretionary immigration, if we can call it that.
What are the sort of uh types of skills that the new immigrants are bringing with them?
Uh and that is sort of where we're sort of heading to this debate on immigration.
See we'll see what the number is on I think it's Thursday the numbers come out.
It's to talk through how the RBA is seeing the economy and why their biases are the hike interest rates.
Given they've got an inflation target for two and a half percent, the midpoint of the two to three range.
Inflation is basically three and a half percent, trim to mean three point six, whatever.
It's too high.
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