Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, the issues around productivity—which are issues that we discussed at length at the roundtable last week—are not linked to the numbers coming through our immigration system, so I don't think it's correct to link the two. There has been slow productivity growth for decades in this country. It is multifaceted—why that is the case—and that is why this government is working across community, industry, business, unions and others to look at how we can all work together to improve productivity in this country. That includes doing things around skills and training. It includes things like finishing the NBN, abolishing tariffs, ensuring we have good jobs growth in the future made in Australia and a whole range of other things that we are undertaking. But we are not looking at changes to net overseas migration. (Time expired)