Luke Grant is joined by Abul Rizvi, former deputy secretary of the Department of Immigration and author of “Population Shock”, who reveals over the past six years Australia has experienced its fifth major wave of asylum seekers.

But unlike the previous four waves, this is by far the largest. This wave is so big that for at least four years prior to COVID-19, asylum seekers were contributing around 10% to 12% of net overseas migration or around 5% to 7% of Australia’s population growth.

This wave of asylum seekers is also the first that is almost entirely a labour trafficking scam organised by various agents and labour-hire companies, whereby they are initially assisted to enter Australia on visitor visas and then to apply for asylum.

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