Murray Watt Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water
2:16 pm
What this government is doing in our migration policy settings is dealing with the reality that, post-COVID and post the former coalition government, we had a migration system that was completely broken, that was being rorted and that was reaching unsustainable numbers. Now, if the Greens political party believe that continuing to have net overseas migration figures of more than half a million a year is a sustainable migration policy then they're on their own. It wasn't. It's not sustainable from a population point of view. It's certainly not sustainable from an environmental point of view to have those kind of numbers every year. That's why we've taken action. We've taken action in a calm, considered and non-divisive way, which is very different to what we've seen from other parties here. What we've done at the same time is ensure that we manage the economic factors arising from our migration policy. We have taken this action without demonising any group within the community, and that's exactly the way we intend to take it from here.
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