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'Fundamentally a strength': Labor shakes up migration
The overhaul would curb overstayers, cap some working holiday visas and tighten student and visitor rules as net overseas migration falls to 292,100.
- On Thursday, Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced migration reforms at the National Press Club, targeting a reduction in net overseas migration from 292,100 to 225,000 annually.
- The government will revert to pre-2015 settings, which Burke said will incentivize overstayers to leave or face detention, targeting the roughly 77,000 unlawful non-citizens in Australia.
- International students face new restrictions preventing family reunification and 'visa hopping,' changes education stakeholders warn could hurt the $55 billion export industry.
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre chief Kon Karapanagiotidis compared the detention plan to 'shocking ICE-driven crackdowns,' questioning whether the government intends to detain whole families.
- Australia's population grew 1.4 per cent to 27.9 million in the 12 months to March, while Burke argued falling household sizes drive housing shortages requiring 450,000 additional homes.
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