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The migration maths behind the housing crisis is not what politicians claim
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- Angus Taylor proposes a return to full immigration targeting, with the number to be based on houses built.
- Calwell's speech to parliament on August 2 that year became famous for kicking off Australia's "populate or perish" immigration push.
- Calwell established that the government should target 1 per cent per year population growth through planned migration on top of a 1 per cent natural increase.
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Angus Taylor proposes a return to full immigration targeting, with the number to be based on houses built. (ABC News: Callum Flinn)
Link copied Share Share article. The last Australian immigration minister to argue for a specific target for overall overseas migration fixed to a percentage of the total population was Labor's Arthur Caldwell in 1945.
Calwell's speech to parliament on August 2 that year became famous for kicking off Australia's "populate or perish" immigration push. The phrase is associated with Calwell but was coined in the 1930s by former then-health minister Billy Hughes.
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