Matt Thistlethwaite, the federal assistant minister for immigration, spoke to the Sydney Institute a few weeks ago. He explained how the Albanese Labor government was planning to fix Australia's broken migration system.
And he said something damning."For many decades Australia hasn't had a migration plan. We haven't had a migration strategy," he said.
A review in to Australia's migration system finds that temporary migrant workers are frequently "exploited" with the current system contributing to the risk of that. "As a result, Australia's migration policies have lacked direction and purpose. "Migration's been unresponsive to Australia's needs. It has provided marginal economic benefit and hasn't enhanced labour productivity.