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🗞️Albanese Critiques Dutton's Migration Plan as a Vague Promise

🗞️Albanese Critiques Dutton's Migration Plan as a Vague Promise

May 20, 2024

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's migration plan "a vibe, not a policy" as they sparred over Australia's housing affordability crisis. Liberal leader Peter Dutton proposed drastic migration cuts in his budget reply speech on Thursday to restore the "great Australian dream" of homeownership. Australia's migration intake would be cut by a quarter to 140,000 a year, and foreign investors would be barred from buying established homes for two years to free up 100,000 properties for locals. The government immediately opposed the policy, and business was sceptical, highlighting the need for migrant workers to boost the construction sector.

On Monday, Mr Albanese told the ABC that Mr Dutton had "no understanding" of the issue and was more interested in appealing to his base than finding a long-term housing affordability solution.

“Well, he's on to the same old formula of blaming others and not coming up with any costed policies whatsoever. Take the issue of foreign people buying houses. He didn't seem to know the morning after how many that consisted of. It's just a bit over 1000. So, the idea that that's going to make a substantial difference is frankly absurd,” Mr. Albanese.

Mr. Albanese said a migration system that he presided over that was broken is something that we've been busy repairing. New measures to restore integrity to international education have resulted in a 35 per cent reduction in student visa grants in just the last few months. You actually need serious policies rather than slogans.

“ And Peter Dutton has had three Budget replies and has yet to come up with a single costed policy. Whether it's this one or whether it's these nuclear reactors where he won't say who'll finance them, how many there'll be, where they'll be, even though just yesterday David Littleproud said that actually even done polling on the locations, but they won't tell your listeners or anyone else where they'll be,” He said.

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Mr. Albanese said It was. It was a system that we inherited from Peter Dutton. Of course, we know that the borders were shut for some time, but when they reopened, the Government under Scott Morrison actually put in place a mechanism, for example, where students could come in, could work unlimited hours.

“Now that attracted people who were coming here to work rather than study, even though they were on student visas, not doing real courses. No integrity in the system. Now we're busy restoring the system so that it will come down to 260,000 in the next financial year. That's important. We are fixing a problem that we inherited, like so many problems that we inherited. Like we're fixing, we turned a $78 billion deficit into a $22 billion surplus last year and a $9.3 billion projected surplus this year. Like we’re fixing child care and aged care and so many areas,” He disclosed.

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