Why does the Govt want to lower migration?
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Good morning and welcome to the Daily Oz. It's Friday, the 18th of September. I'm Zara Seidler. I'm Billy FitzSimonds. Yesterday, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke unveiled the government's new migration plans. More than a month after he was supposed to announce them.
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It comes as the discussion about Australia's migration system heats up with Labour, One Nation, the Coalition all vying for votes on this very contentious issue. In today's podcast, we are going to explain what the government is proposing, how they're actually going to do it, and what the political spectrum is responding.
Zara, immigration has become one of the biggest topics in politics.
What did Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announce about Australia’s migration plan?
Kind
of feel like
it
always has been. Yeah. It it's just that like hot button topic people, you know, rightly on both sides of the debate feel very strongly about.
But I think with the platform that one nation is running their um well, running on,
yeah,
it has become even more of a political issue.
Yeah, I mean I think that that's probably a good starting point because that is the context in which this announcement came, which was that earlier this week One Nation actually announced their immigration policy. Uh for the first time, they had a policy, they had numbers. And so uh Tony Burke, when he got up and announced what Labour's policy was gonna be, had to explicitly say, We've been working on this for ages. We promise it's not in response to one nation, because he was clearly predicting that that's what the analysis was gonna be.
Tony Burke being the immigration minister for home affairs. And home
affairs and arts. And I called his office to try to get a release about what was going to be in this speech. And there was this is such an annoying tangent, but there was a really long list of they were like, if you're calling for the arts portfolio, click this, if you're calling for this. So he is a man that wears many hats. But yes, yesterday it was his home affairs and immigration portfolios that were on show, and he was up at the National Press Club announcing. Labour's new migration policy. I will just say, and usually timing of a national press club speech is not particularly of importance, but he was meant to deliver this speech last month and then canceled basically a day before. And that was attributed to the fact that Labour apparently couldn't agree on what their policy was actually going to be, and that there was so much internal dissent.
Yeah. that he had to pull the speech, pull the announcement last minute, which is not a great show of, you know, where the party is at internally. You know. Um but then A month later, here we are, we have the speech finally.
And before we get to what he actually announced in that speech, can you give us a state of play of where Australia's migration system currently is?
Yes, I can. I'll just say on timing, while Tony Burke's uh team were probably not stoked that he had to pull the speech at the last minute last month. It did mean that when he did deliver it yesterday, it coincided with the latest migration figures that the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced and The government wouldn't have known what those were going to be. So it could have gone either way if those had been higher than predicted. I think Tony Burke would have had to do a lot of explaining around that, but they actually came in as lower than expected. So I'll read you through the latest ABS figures. So they track something called net overseas migration, which is basically just the number of people who arrive and stay for at least 12 months minus the number of people.
People who leave and stay away for at least 12 months. That number fell to 292,000 for the year to the March quarter.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:16
2
What did Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announce about Australia’s migration plan?
1:16–6:17
3
How do the latest ABS net overseas migration figures compare to previous quarters?
6:17–9:51
4
What are the main arguments from One Nation and other parties for lowering migration?
9:51–13:15
5
How does the new points system treat housing‑trade workers versus university graduates?
13:15–17:11
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What changes are being made to family visas for international students?
17:11–21:15
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How will the working‑holiday maker program be altered with a ballot system?
21:15–23:30