10.4225/03/590aa5128e03b Betts, Katharine Katharine Betts Gilding, Michael Michael Gilding The growth lobby and Australia's immigration policy Monash University 2017 1959.1/482368 journal article 1039-4788 Immigration Australian's population growth Land development Howard government monash:64103 2017-05-04 03:50:41 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/The_growth_lobby_and_Australia_s_immigration_policy/4969256 Immigration boosts Australia’s population growth. A growth lobby concentrated among interests based in housing, land development and construction profits from this and actively lobbies for it. During the early years of the Howard Government (1996 to 1999) the lobby faced the novel situation of a presumably pro-business government that reduced immigration. Eventually this induced the lobby to mobilise and to go public, rendering its activity more visible than before. From July 2000 the Government embarked on a series of steep increases in the intake. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s