.What we need is a solely taxpayer funded independent body to formulate a population policy for a sustainable Australia. In other words, something to replace the “Migration Council” lobby group.
As the following linked 8 year old article about the birth of the Migration Council states:
The Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, abolished by John Howard, played a crucial role in providing research-based information for the policy debates of the 1980s and early 1990s, a major hole in current policy.