Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan has been grilled on the Coalition’s planned cuts to net migration, with the opposition looking to slash the number of arrivals to Australia and Labor set to overblow its much larger target by about 100,000.
Shadow immigration minister Dan Tehan has failed to outline how the Coalition will achieve its enormous cuts to net migration as Labor is set to blow past its target for the 2023-24 financial year.
When pressed on who the Coalition will exclude from migrating to Australia to hit this ambitious target, Mr Tehan said that information would come down the track before directing his sights at Labor. Attempting to steer the interview back onto the specifics of the Coalition's policy, Clennell questioned Mr Tehan about exactly where the opposition would make its cuts.
Mr Tehan said the Coalition was not sure what it was “dealing with” in terms of the state of Australia’s immigration as Labor had made “such a mess of immigration” that the party does not know “where we will be starting from at this stage”. After Mr Tehan started to repeat his point that the Coalition “don’t know how big the mess is going to be”, Clennell interjected to highlight the party’s target that it revealed.Mr Tehan proceeded to shed some light on a specific policy position that the Coalition would look at to lower migration levels.
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