Net overseas migration into Australia will reach a “record 400,000 this year” before settling down to a more sustainable level, says Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
“Despite this, the government is insistent that its migration strategy, announced last week, is not about a big Australia,” Mr Clennell told Sky News Australia.
“It says that measures such alterations to the immigration points tests and lifting the salary threshold for skilled migrants from $53,900 a year to $70,000 a year is about less migrants, not more, and the ‘right migrants’.
“The government also announced it would allow all those on temporary skilled visas to have a pathway to permanent residency and it believes this is key as previously cooks, carpenters, engineers, plumbers and others have been given three-year visas here and then, as one senior government source put it, told to get lost.”
Net overseas migration into Australia will reach a “record 400,000 this year” before settling down to a more sustainable level, says Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “Despite this, the government is insistent that its migration strategy, announced last week, is not about a big Australia,” Mr Clennell told Sky News Australia. “It says that measures such alterations to the immigration points tests and lifting the salary threshold for skilled migrants from $53,900 a year to $70,000 a year is about less migrants, not more, and the ‘right migrants’. “The government also announced it would allow all those on temporary skilled visas to have a pathway to permanent residency and it believes this is key as previously cooks, carpenters, engineers, plumbers and others have been given three-year visas here and then, as one senior government source put it, told to get lost.”
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