Australians are marking down the Albanese government for its handling of immigration amid a debate about how best to manage the country’s population growth, as one in every two voters polled says the permanent migration rate remains too high.

A Resolve Political Monitor survey of 1800 voters, conducted for this masthead from September 9 to 13 and with a margin of error of 2.3 per cent, showed that 49 per cent of people survey believed the current level of permanent migration was too high.

Just 27 per cent of people said the permanent migration rate was “about right” and a tiny 5 per cent said it was too low, with 18 per cent undecided.

And in another worrying sign for the government, a majority of voters – 55 per cent – believe it is handling immigration in “an unplanned and unmanaged w

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