Senate debates
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Questions without Notice
Migration
2:33 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source
It would have a very substantial impact on our economic growth, but it would also, importantly, have a very, very significant effect on the services that Australians seek and need, not only in the care economy. I have yet to find a business in this country—when I've done roundtables and all the rest of it—that has sought to have a policy such as the one that One Nation are arguing for. If anything, business is arguing for more intake in particular visa categories in order to fill the very significant shortages there are, whether it be in health and community care or, indeed, in construction or in engineering or in IT. All of those businesses would seek further increase in the intake. Certainly, no-one would be arguing for net zero.
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