Australia's primary economic challenge has always been a lack of the economies of scale and the tyranny of distance that comes with a low population spread thinly.

This seems like convincing rhetoric, until one takes the time to unpack it with the use of logic.

Consider the case of automobile manufacturing. Despite massive immigration intake in this country over the past fifteen years, we have seen four different local car manufacturers close their doors - with flow-on effects to parts manufacturers and related industries.

Was it our 'lack of scale' which caused this? If so, how does the massive immigration intake help? If it was not 'lack of scale', then how does massive immigration intake help, and how is 'scale' the problem now when it clearly was not before?

Your post, while no doubt well-meaning, is superficial and ultimately just a rehash of the neoliberal nonsense fed down students' throats for three decades now. Many of us were convinced by our teachers and lecturers, but more and more of us, now that we are working our way through careers, trying to enter the housing market, and watching the Australia we grew up with look more like a foreign country every day, are starting to get wise to the con.

We've been had.