Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Scarr, the facts tell the true story, which is that the most recent data shows that net overseas migration is around 17,000 below Treasury's forecast for the first three-quarters of 2024-25. Net overseas migration has now fallen for six quarters in a row in annual terms, and it's over 40 per cent down on its peak. The government recognised that steps did need to be taken to fix the broken, discredited, corrupted immigration system that we inherited from the coalition. Those figures show that we're doing that.