Australia has never driven migration into reverse by design. Would slamming the brakes on be calamitous?
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Australia is considering deliberately driving net overseas migration into reverse, a move economist Mark Cully describes as unprecedented outside of historical crises like wars and depressions. While the nation has previously cut immigration programs, it has never intentionally pushed permanent migration below zero. Despite this, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is promising to engineer negative net migration for three years if she wins.
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