Immigration Minister Andrew Giles told Wednesday’s Australian-Melbourne Institute Outlook conference that the Albanese Government was shifting the nation’s migration program toward permanent migration:
“The former government cut the permanent program by 120,000 over four years, and deliberately ramped up the use of temporary visas which are essentially uncapped”…
“The Albanese government has taken a different approach, starting to bring forward an increase in permanent migration. This is the most important decision that the government can take in relation to the long-term rate of population growth for Australia and in respect of its composition to whether we continue to drift towards the guest worker society or we rebuild sure pathways to permanency.”
