Sean Bell (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Under the Albanese Labor government, Australia's immigration system is out of control. Infrastructure Australia's 2025 Infrastructure market capacity report shows there is a shortage of around 140,000 skilled workers across Australia, and this is expected to explode to a 300,000-worker shortfall by 2027. The Albanese Labor government has imported roughly 1.2 million extra migrants since 2022, and now the CEO of Infrastructure Australia has admitted in an ABC interview that a solution to the skills shortage—their solution—is to bring in even more migrants to plug the gap instead of treating this as a 300,000-people opportunity to create a better homegrown skilled workforce. Why won't the Albanese government admit that Labor would rather import a workforce than invest in a better future for our kids, the unemployed and our tradies?