A former Immigration Department senior official has issued a warning about Australia’s “all-time record” rate of net migration, declaring the rate is “too high” and is straining government services.
Dr Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the department, said Treasury had forecast Australia’s net migration to reach 400,000 over the financial year but data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed it could reach about half a million over the last 12 months.
“It's straining infrastructure, it's straining housing, it's straining the ability of government services to deliver to the population that's growing. Despite these measures, Dr Rivzi said the student intake was is “still running at a very, very high level". “So what we have or will have is a large number of people in Australia, frustrated in their ability to get permanent migration and that is not a good situation to be in.”
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