Peter Georgiou (WA, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Minister Fifield, representing the Minister for Immigration and Border Protection. Minister, Australia's population has now reached 25 million. If this year's federal budget papers are accurate, our immigration intake level will grow by nearly one million over the next four years. As of June 2018, the ABS estimated that our unemployment rate nationally is at 5.4 per cent; however, July 2018 figures from Roy Morgan Research suggest that the actual jobless rate is closer to 10 per cent. That means that one in every 10 Australians is out of work. At the same time, the new skilled occupation list for the immigration intake program has identified certain jobs that apparently not enough Australians are taking up. Can the minister confirm that Australia is facing such an imminent crisis that we need to import dog handlers as part of the skilled visa program? How many of these positions have been set aside?