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Burke bets his job on migration target
Published 2 weeks, 5 days ago
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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has released Labor's immigration policy aimed at reducing net overseas migration to 225,000 by next financial year, down from the current 292,000 and the post-pandemic peak of 556,000. The measures include cutting international student, family reunion and working backpacker visa numbers, banning students from bringing partners and children, introducing a visa lottery for backpackers, and reverting to pre-2015 laws to deport 80,000 illegal overstayers. Burke has implemented the changes through ministerial regulations rather than parliamentary debate, promising categorically to deliver the target and effectively betting his job on the outcome.
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