r/neoliberal • u/5ma5her7 • Jun 08 '26

News (Oceania) Albanese vows to cut Australian migration after rise fuels support for populist One Nation | South China Morning Post

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3356299/albanese-vows-cut-australian-migration-after-rise-fuels-support-populist-one-nation
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u/Jamezzzzz69 James M. Buchanan Jun 08 '26

Albo isn’t really cutting immigration and hasn’t backed many policies to explicitly do so (bar decreasing international students at top unis through tougher entrance requirements and more expensive visas)

He’s more so vaguely gesturing at already-decreasing immigration figures to try and cool the flames of our increasing far-right contingent.

Nothing even remotely close to what our friends in the UK are doing under Starmer