Ha! This was behind a paywall, but one kind reader who supports the cause had a chook raffle raising the money for me to look at articles from The Australian, just like a real journalist, dripping with resources. Articles like this one:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/immigration/most-australians-wanted-migrant-intake-frozen-24-years-ago/news-story/9f65e547a7d435fee5310a159c70a90b?fbclid=IwAR14VfahTm1C2XaScCo42zLmM-8oWHMIUbY4CvP5yfs68xX1ZaNmqBsbCdk&login=1
“Liberal senator Dean Smith says Australians have not been listened to on population policy ¬development over the past two decades. Demands from a majority of Australians to put the brakes on immig¬ration levels in 1994 were ignore¬d by political leaders, who oversaw a 30 per cent blowout in population growth. Liberal senator Dean Smith is using figures from a 24-year-old parliamentary committee report to argue Australians have not been listened to on population policy ¬development over the past two decades. The West Australian senator, who led the campaign last year to legalise same-sex marriage, called for the re-establishment of the now abolished long-term strategies committee and for a popu¬lation inquiry to be prioritised. Senator Smith’s proposal came as cabinet minister Christopher Pyne argued that Australia did not have a “too-high population”, despite Scott Morrison confirming there would be a reduction in the cap of the permanent migration intake.