The Joe Walker Podcast

Joe Walker

Well-researched interviews on ideas, technology, and policy. (Plus a recurring series on Australian public policy.)

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The Joe Walker Podcast

Episodes (130)

May 21st How Australia Actually Selects and Integrates Migrants — Mike Pezzullo [Immigration Series]
May 21st "Bigger and Different": The Six Decades That Remade Australia — Mark Cully [Immigration Series]
May 19th "We've built an economy that requires 2 million temporary migrants" — Martin Parkinson [Immigration Series]

The Joe Walker Podcast

May 21, 2026
3½ hours
186 MB

Part 3 of a three-part immigration series this week. Martin Parkinson (economics) available here; Mark Cully (history) available here. Mike Pezzullo ran the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (2013-2014), then the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (2014-2017), then the Department of Home Affairs (2017-2023). For more than a decade across those three roles, he was responsible for how Australia selects migrants, screens for risk, and thinks about social cohesion under stress. We discuss the central but underappreciated fact about how Australia selects migrants: the diversity of our intake is a happy accident of global...

The Joe Walker Podcast

How Australia Actually Selects and Integrates Migrants — Mike Pezzullo [Immigration Series]

Joe Walker

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