Crossbenchers urge Labor to scrap stage three tax cuts; more pressure on Scott Morrison to resign
, has appeared on Sky News this morning where he warned any lift to the migration cap cannot be made at the expense of training the domestic workforce.is urging the government to boost the permanent migration cap to 220,000 temporarily to make up for the shortfall in migration during the pandemic.
We can’t fall in the trap of saying migration is a substitute for training, we need to move on both fronts in sensible ways.
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