Last year, former Home Affairs Minister Claire O’Neil decried the temporary nature of Australia’s migration system, claiming that it was holding the country back.
“Today, really for the first time in our modern history, our uncapped, unplanned temporary program is the centrepiece and driver of our migration system. This simple fact is the source of huge problems”, she said.
“In 2007, we had about one million temporary migrants in Australia, excluding visitor and transit visas. Today that number is 1.9 million”.
