The Albanese government has been urged to overhaul the system for how 800,000 skilled migrants will be selected over the next decade – a system Labor committed to reforming three years ago but has yet to update.
Former Treasury secretary Martin Parkinson, who led Labor’s migration review in 2023, said updating the points test used for the selection of skilled migrants would improve trust in the system and boost productivity, and should be a focus of the migration debate instead of “culture wars garbage”.
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