House debates Questions without Notice
Prime Minister, Cost of Living
Anthony Albanese Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister
2:32 pm
I thank the member for his question. In part, I'm stunned at them raising issues of migration and access to the labour market, because the government is making sensible changes, just as we have brought down the level of net overseas migration by 45 per cent. What those opposite are suggesting would decimate the agricultural sector. I have certainly had representations about that, just as we are continuing to engage constructively with business. As the member might know, the offer has been there for other reforms that would further help to bring down the migration numbers and do so in a way that has no impact at all on the needs of the labour market, but those opposite, unfortunately, have chosen to not support those sensible reforms.
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