David Pocock said he is frustrated there is no population plan for Australia (there isn’t – there is no thought given to what size Australia’s population should be as a cohesive plan, which means infrastructure doesn’t keep pace, which is not the fault of migrants, but of successive governments)

Pocock:

We saw a catch-up over COVID. My concern is that there really isn’t a plan. We’re not taking into account the required infrastructure, things like impacts on the environment, and when you don’t have a plan, you open yourselves up to the kind of things we saw on the weekend. So I would love to see a sensible conversation about it. And for the government – rather than Treasury just setting some sort of arbitrary number every year – to actually say, “OK, THIS is how valuable migrants are to this country. These are the skill areas that we need. This is how we’re going to do it over time. This is how we’re going to ensure that we’re building enough housing, schools, other infrastructure that is required for a growing population.”