Taylor (who?) launches new immigration bait and switch

Tuesday 14 April 2026

They never learn. They are paid not to.

The LNP is out with its new performance-based phoney immigration policy.

Unknown leader Seabass Taylor suggests switching from a system that is non-discriminatory to one that evaluates immigrants based on how well they align with national values.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.