Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration).
We already have a housing shortage. They created a 10bil housing fund. Plan is for this fund to... invest in the stock market, and use the interest to fund the construction of 6000 houses a year.
It's a fucking joke.
People talk about Big Australia(govt policy of sharply increasing population) for geopolitical reasons, but I think it's simpler than that. My personal theory is that the govt doesn't want to go into a technical recession and be excoriated in the murdoch press as bad economic managers because they were left holding the previous govts turd sandwich.
The parallels between Australia & Canada are interesting, but i'm curious why the Canadian govt is motivated to do this...