Last year, Home Affairs Minister Claire O’Neil lamented the temporariness of Australia’s migration system, arguing that it was holding the nation back.
“Today, really for the first time in our modern history, our uncapped, unplanned temporary program is the centrepiece and driver of our migration system. This simple fact is the source of huge problems”, O’Neil said.
“In 2007 we had about 1 million temporary migrants in Australia, excluding visitor and transit visas. Today that number is 1.9 million”.
