Everybody wants to cut migration<\/a><\/p>\nThe causes of migration are murky and it is harder for politicians to control than they would like to admit.<\/p>\n
Mr Farley said One Nation was focused on net migration “in its true form”, plus workers from several necessary visa programs, citing about 40,000 migrants under the Pacific workers visa, about 68,000 to 70,000 skilled aged care migrants and skilled mechanical and engineering workers.<\/p>\n
He said that category would make up “a minimum” of 100,000 more visas granted each year under a One Nation government, on top of what he described as the “true” net overseas migration rate of 130,000.<\/p>\n
While the government has forecast migration returning to about 225,000 by 2028, it has repeatedly overshot those forecasts, particularly after the reopening of international borders following the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The One Nation MP’s comments follow weeks of debate on how deeply migration rates should be cut, an issue that has become a political battleground in part because of One Nation’s rise in popularity on a platform of slashing migration.<\/p>\n
The party has also laid out its intentions to restrict migration from some countries deemed to be higher risk, suggesting it could use travel advice to determine which countries should be affected by migration restrictions.<\/p>\n
The Coalition has been developing a migration policy to combat One Nation, as the right wing party has emerged from the fringe of politics to threaten the Coalition’s status as the opposition.<\/p>\n
While it has not yet set migration targets, the Coalition intends to tie migration to housing construction rates, saying that migration rates will be restricted to the pace of housing completions in the previous year in order to close the supply shortfall in the housing sector.<\/p>\n
The government, meanwhile, has been planning reforms to further tighten temporary visas as it seeks to bring down net overseas migration from 300,000 to its goal of 225,000 by 2028.<\/p>\n
Those reforms were postponed, with the policy still to be settled by cabinet.<\/p>\n
In July, the government issued a directive to prioritise people already onshore for visa processing, slowing arrivals overseas \u2014 including for in-demand skilled workers in nursing, teaching and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Business fears race to bottom on migration<\/p>\n
With both major parties and One Nation competing on migration, business groups have stepped up their calls for “stability” in the migration system, fearing a race to the bottom could leave industries with deeper worker shortages.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Australian Industry Group said skilled migration was “essential” to addressing workforce shortages in housing, infrastructure, manufacturing, health, aged care and in emerging industries.<\/p>\n
“Australia cannot meet current and future workforce needs through domestic training alone,” chief executive Innes Willox said.<\/p>\n
“Reducing skilled migration at a time of persistent workforce shortages would put further pressure on housing delivery, major infrastructure projects and business investment.”<\/p>\n
The industry group urged that permanent skilled migration remain at current levels, and asked for visa processing and skills recognition processes to be sped up.<\/p>\n
It also asked for the government to do more to explain to voters how migration supports essential services and the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation MP David Farley says immigration rates to Australia would not be “too different” to Labor or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,1946,6872,118518,1955,1926,19462],"class_list":["post-78154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-david-farley","tag-immigration","tag-net-overseas-migration-rate","tag-one-nation","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-skilled-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}