Tony Abbott will call for a cut of 80,000 in Australia’s migration intake in a speech claiming the move would improve quality of living and suggesting the Coalition needs to champion political outsiders to win the next election. The speech, to be delivered to the Sydney Institute on Tuesday, reportedly blasts the national energy guarantee and criticises Coalition ministers for not taking up the cause of cutting immigration. Tony Abbott repeats claim immigration cut will improve quality of life Read more“It’s a basic law of economics that increasing the supply of ­labour depresses wages, and that increasing demand for housing boosts price,” Abbott says. “In order to win the next election, the government needs policy positions which are prin­cipled, practical and popular,” he will say. He will suggest something is “fundamentally wrong” when Australia has “the world’s highest energy prices” despite large reserves of coal, gas and uranium.

Source: The Guardian February 19, 2018 22:30 UTC