Angus Taylor said the migration policy he is announcing today would bring migration levels below those of the Howard government.
“The net overseas migration numbers will be 100,000 year one, 100,000 year two, going to 160,000 in year four. That will take pressure off roads, off schools, off infrastructure, off houses, and that will ensure that our country has the breathing space it needs after the record levels of immigration under Labor,” the opposition leader said.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor.Alex Ellinghausen
Net overseas migration is 292,000, and Labor is trying to bring that down to 225,000 in two years.
“What we are proposing today is the biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country,” Taylor told reporters in Sydney.
He said Australia was a great immigrant nation, but claimed Labor had “lost control of our borders and has lost control of our immigration policy”.
“The reality is that immigration policy under Labor is threatening our way of life, alongside threatening our borders. The integrity of our immigration system has been deeply flawed in the time Labor has been in power.”