Queensland’s Steven Miles claims credit for the federal opposition’s policy to cut overseas arrivals, saying the housing industry needs time to catch up.
, saying the plan would ease the population squeeze and allow the housing industry to keep pace with huge growth.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is due to visit Queensland later this week, setting up an awkward meeting with his Labor counterpart. Both leaders face looming elections: Queenslanders go to the polls in October, and a federal campaign is due by May 2025. But former Immigration Department deputy secretary Abul Rizvi said Mr Dutton’s policy to cap net overseas arrivals at 160,000 would require a “decimation” of international education, and the turning away of tens of thousands of badly needed health and aged care workers here on temporary visas.Achieving the target would also require forcing large numbers of long-standing permanent and temporary migrants to go home and not return, including New Zealanders living in Australia for years.
Grattan’s economic policy program director Brendan Coates said every permanent skilled visa holder offers a fiscal dividend of $250,000 over their lifetime in Australia. Every cut of 10,000 people would cost federal and state government budgets combined the equivalent of $2.5 billion over their lifetimes.
Nationals leader David Littleproud said at the weekend the Coalition would impose the biggest cuts on sandstone universities in the Group of Eight network, including Melbourne and Sydney. He said regional universities would be supported to maintain high levels of foreign enrolments.
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