Professor Max Corden, a member of the Productivity Commission, recently delivered the inaugural Richard Snape Lecture on Australia’s immigration policy. This is an abridged version of his address, to which Colin Teese replies here: RESPONSE: No immigration policy without industry policy.Australia’s total fertility rate (number of births per woman in her lifetime) has been declining since the mid-1970s, and especially during the nineties. It was 1.89 in 1992 and in 2001 was 1.74. A reasonable est…
