Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil says migration has helped Australia become a “prosperous and secure” nation, but the current systems are suffering from a “decade of genuinely breathtaking neglect”.
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“In the 1990’s Paul Keating used skilled migration to drive Australia out of recession, migration helped deliver the longest period of continuous economic growth in recorded history anywhere in the world, in our country, Australia.
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