Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

First, I'm not sure about the figure, but we have, as a result of the Jobs and Skills Summit, indicated 195,000 places, and that is as a consequence of the capacity constraints in the economy and the skills crisis that we know, from talking to business and if you look at the data, exists. But the focus will be on permanent skilled migration, and that will add to the capacity of the Australian economy. It's important to recall that one of the things that we all have to do and Australia will have to do is to ensure, with the link between GDP and populations and emissions, that they are delinked and that we can continue to grow our economy in ways that don't continue to produce as many emissions. The way we do that is by the sorts of investments in renewable energy that our plan will deliver. (Time expired)