Interior Minister Peter Dutton said the dramatic reduction in migratory inflow would be beneficial for the economy, despite warnings by Treasurer Scott Morrison that a reduction could sweep away billions of dollars
revealed last week that annual permanent migration inflow for 2017-2018 has dropped by more than 10%, or 21,000 people, to less than 163,000, the the lowest level in more than ten years.
the contribution should be reduced from the target of 190,000 to 110,000. At the time, Mr. Morrison said that this decision would have a major budgetary impact.
"I can understand why people would be attracted superficially by this idea that if you lower the level of permanent immigration, it will have an impact, think about it," Morrison told 3AW at the time. Time
"If you take this proposal, that's what it means.You should drop [the intake] by 80 thousand." The budget amount would be $ 4 to $ 5 billion over the next four years years. "
M. Dutton said he would argue that the cut revealed last week demonstrated that Home Affairs ensured that "more productive people" come to Australia that would have a positive economic impact.
" It's positive because if we bring more productive people, then there are more economic benefits for our country and there is also a greater societal benefit because if people work if people come in our country, "he told Sky News.
"We are not talking about a humanitarian program here, we are talking about people coming here as part of the skills and family settlement program, mainly the partner visa component."
"These are people who pretend to be in a couple, we find cases where they "These are not legitimate relationships, we find cases where people do not have qualifications that they claimed, they had all the right. work experience they claimed to have. "
Mr. Dutton said the movement differentiated his party from Labor 19659005]" In the next election Bill Shorten will promise to move more people to the United States. Australia what this government is prepared to do. "
Mr. Dutton confirmed that a boat with seven Chinese nationals and three Indonesian crew was intercepted north of Australia argued that the incident should be remembered to Australians that smugglers were still active in the area.
"The Chinese nations on board were equipped with an Indonesian crew and we were able to intercept it. o Return this boat and this is part of the approach to Operation Sovereign Frontiers that we have had over the past two years.
"This is not unusual because we had Chinese nationals before we crossed the Torres Strait. [1945919] @PeterDutton_MP said that he would only consider an agreement to resettle refugees on the island of Manus and Nauru in New Zealand if the visa laws were amended to make these people can not come to Australia.
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M . Dutton reiterated that he did not want to accept New Zealand 's offer to accept asylum seekers from Nauru and the Isle of Manus for the time being. But he said that if the laws that allow freedom of movement between Australia and New Zealand were changed, he might consider it in the future.
"At some point in the future, we will be reduced to the number of people … consider it," he said.