The immigration numbers bidding war is pointless – there are limits to how many migrants Australia can accept
- Written by Abul Rizvi, PhD candidate, The University of Melbourne

Since late last year, various business lobby groups, the NSW government, management consultant KPMG, the Business Council and now a number of economists have been throwing numbers around, talking up the need for higher levels of immigration.
I have written previously on the facile nature of the immigration debate in Australia, on the...