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Wednesday, 21 March - Wednesday, 21 March 2018
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm AEDT
In 2018 Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott called for slashing immigration to deal with Australia’s housing and infrastructure challenges. As a result, he sparked a debate that goes beyond ideology. Meanwhile, opinion polls indicated growing opposition to high levels of migration that have helped shape public policy in recent decades.
Has Australia’s long economic expansion been dependent on immigration? Take out population growth, would our miracle economy have gone into recession? Is a Big Australia feasible these days?
Moderated by Tom Switzer: Executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies and a presenter at ABC’s Radio National.
Mark Latham, Daily Telegraph columnist and former federal Labor leader and Judith Sloan, Economist, company director and former commissioner of the Productivity Commission, debate against Glenn Withers, Professor of Economics at the Australian National University in Canberra and Adam Creighton, Economics writer at The Australian and former research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies.