Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has given the strongest indication yet that Labor will use its upcoming migration review to ramp immigration even higher.
As reported in The AFR, O’Neil “wants to cut red tape, such as forcing employers to advertise jobs locally before sponsoring foreigners, and overhaul the “outdated” visa system as part of a pro-business shake-up of the nation’s “broken” migration system”.
After lifting the permanent (non-humanitarian) migrant cap to a record high 195,000 last September, O’Neil said the government wants to shift the balance from relying on temporary foreign workers in favour of permanent migration, claiming the “temporariness” of the system was a “huge missed opportunity”.
