Who are the shills for Big Australia?

The shills for Big Australia all have vested business interests which they do not disclose, because that would give the game away.

Propaganda tactics

Just a few of the shill's tactics, there are many more which consist mostly of omission:

• Aging population. This myth is their 'big gun', but is also the most easily shot down: migrants age too. Many countries, especially East Asian already have lower birth rates than Australia, and even when people with higher birth rates come here, their birth rate lowers. More people just means more people aging.
• Skills shortage: this is complete bullshit. More skilled graduates than ever can't find jobs and the underutilisation rate is persistently high. Even if there was a skills shortage for any period of time, this would indicate a need for more focus on education and training, not migration.
• Only talk about aggregate/headline GDP, rather than GDP per capita
• Talk fatalistically about the inevitability of 'Big Australia'. This is a gaslighting tactic that denies the Australian public any prerogative over its destiny.
• Talk about benefit of increased demand of consumer goods as a positive thing in isolation, but then deny that there is even a demand side to the housing affordability issue
• Completely omit any mention of the population's impact on the environment
• Draw false similarities with the limited immigration of mostly European immigrants that occurred post-World War II. In contrast to the mass immigration today, the limited post-war immigration had public confidence consent, benefits and open, honest discourse.
• "We just need more planning" - such a bad argument given that this mantra has been repeated for decades and failed. Past behaviour is a predictor of future behaviour. What did Einstein say about doing the same thing over and over?
• When all else fails, "that's racist" - this line is most popular amongst the Greens

The shills

• ABC - several shows, including The Drum, 4 Corners and Q&A have promoted 'Big Australia'. In one case they had 3 shills with not a single one questioning immigration: ABC shows 'Big Australia' bias - just listen to this fuckwit echo chamber: a 'lively discussion' of unquestioning cheerleaders, politically-correct buzzwords and fatalism. Peter Martin is particularly disgraceful - as if we can't control immigration, which is 2/3 of population increase, what a fucking dickhead. The other two randoms are just cheerleading morons. This is the epitome of what you get from the ABC, although it is usually less shrill, and they sometimes give, say, 20% of airtime to an opposing view.
• Liz Allen - curator of fake opinions polls and distributor of nonsensical verbal diarrhoea. Criticism: Liz Allen Wants to Eat Your Future
• Adam Creighton - uses self-serving propaganda from the Growth lobby, including fake polls published by Scanlon. Uses personal anecdotes like "I like big cities" - that's really nice, Adam, now tell us about your skin products. Adam is inconsistent: he acknowledges that per capita GDP is more important than headline GDP, but can't bring himself to identify the demand side of the demand/supply equation.
• Scanlon Foundation - property developer, publishes a self-serving poll
• Jessica Irvine, some random Fairfax idiot.
• Michael Pascoe, another Domainfax piece of shit
• Peter Martin - complete fuckwit with the honesty of a used car salesman - economics editor from The Age, a rag not well regarded for its economic insights
• Greg Sheridan - should know better, but delusional on this topic
• Grattan Institute - funded by the ALP, which believes in 'Big Australia.' Has suggested a small cut to immigration in the past, but was piss weak about it
• Older Ross Gittins Ross has seen the light recently and given up cheerleading for the property development industry. New Ross is calling for immigration cuts. Will the rest of the Fairfax gang at SMH follow suit?