Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It's 126,000—there you go! I'm going to speak to my staff on that. It's 126,000 now. It was 67,000 in May 2022. We were meant to be decreasing the caseload. The caseload has almost doubled to 126,000. Worse is this: median case times have blown out. In May 2022 they were around 30 weeks. They are now 68 weeks. Remember that this is a billion dollars of taxpayers' money that was meant to provide more integrity in the system. Worse, student visa appeals have surged from around 2,000 cases in 2022—this is almost unbelievable; in fact, I thought there was a mistake, but it's not—to more than 40,000.