Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan says the numbers Clare O’Neil produced in her speech at the National Press Club on Australia’s immigration system “don’t add up”.
“She’s announcing we’re going to put more people on a permanent pathway, we already know that net overseas migration is going to hit 650,000 in the next two years, she seems to have added more to that number today,” Mr Tehan told Sky News Australia.
“And yet she’s saying ‘oh no we think it will lead to a reduction’ – my question is how and where is the data, where is the analysis? “Maybe this will be all laid out in the budget, but from the speech today all we got was once again a very confusing outlook and it doesn’t seem like there is a plan.”
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