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Flat White

The lost art of nation-building

<em>Australia has a shortage of thinking, not skills</em>

19 September 2022

4:00 AM

19 September 2022

4:00 AM

If you’ve ever built something other than a political career, you will know that it takes lots of smarts and hard yakka. Building requires forward thinking, creativity, resilience, and, most importantly, a plan for what the finished product looks like. Take those things away and you’re mindlessly creating a big, ugly, and expensive mess.

This brings me to Labor’s plan for Australia.

In the months leading up to the Jobs and Skills Summit, Minister for Immigration Matthew Giles was on Sky News Australia promoting his plan for a hike in migrant numbers.

‘Immigration, I think, has to be seen fundamentally as part of a nation-building...

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