Electioneering Dan demands VIC become world’s retirement home

Thursday 27 October 2022

I noted on Thursday how the federal Labor Government has doubled the number of elderly parent visas that will be handed out in 2022-23, from 4500 places to 8500 places.

Now Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has called on the federal government to uncap the number of long-term temporary parent visas, alongside reducing their cost to sponsoring families:

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says it’s ‘wrong’ to say that parents of migrants can’t come to Australia.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.