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2 weeks ago | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
On 30 June 2024, the number of student visa holders living in Australia was 608,262. This was higher than in any other year on record, surpassing the previous record of 568,753 in 2023 by approximately 7 per cent. Australia’s estimated resident population had only increased by 2 per cent over the same period from 26.65 million to 27.20 million. The number of international students studying in Australia reached a record high in 2024.
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2 weeks ago | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
“ABS data confirms that each and every day in February, the federal government allowed an average of almost 4,000 net permanent and long-term arrivals into Australia – the highest on record. This is completely unsustainable, especially on the back of a record influx of international students,” said Dr Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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3 weeks ago | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
“For a long time now, South Australia has not been able to stand on its own two feet and deliver affordable and reliable baseload energy, vital to growing the state’s economy and helping families and business get ahead. Pretending it is a renewable energy leader is just making it worse,” said Dr Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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3 weeks ago | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
The South Australian government claimed that, when it comes to renewable energy, South Australia is ‘not just the leader of the pack—it’s in a league of its own’. Indeed the state government has argued that if South Australia were a country, then it would be comparable to Denmark in its level of variable renewable penetration. The comparison between Denmark and South Australia has also been drawn by other supporters of and participants in the renewable energy transition.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
“As Australians struggle with increased mortgage costs and a per capita recession, governments at all levels are spending at levels not seen since the Covid pandemic, which is keeping interest rates high and fuelling the cost-of-living crisis,” said Dr Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
Government spending across local, state, and federal governments accounted for a record 28 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP)—economic activity—at the end of the 2024 financial year, up from 21 per cent ten years prior, in the June quarter of 2014. As well as taking up a larger share of the total economy, increases in government spending have in recent years been the single biggest contributor to economic growth.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
“The claim Australia’s annual international education export figure is $48 billion is a myth based on unsupported assumptions. It is used by wealthy, elite universities to justify increasing numbers of international students that pad their bottom line,” said Dr Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
Australia’s international student market is frequently asserted to be Australia’s fourth largest export market, just behind iron, coal, and natural gas, and was valued at $48 billion over the course of the 2023 calendar year. However, the claim, reinforced in government documents, is based on an assumption that any spending by international students while studying in Australia is an ‘export’.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
ipa.org.au | Kevin You |Scott Hargreaves
“The Prime Minister’s promise to cut migration has been broken again with official figures confirming a further dramatic surge to migration with arrival records again being smashed,” said Dr Kevin You, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public.
