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.
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