Labor government to ‘halve net migration’ over the next ‘couple of years’

Assistant Defence Minister Matt Thistlethwaite says the Labor government is already going to “halve net migration” over the next “couple of years”. “There was a recovery in migration numbers in the wake of COVID where we, of course, closed the borders, and there weren’t any migrants,” he told Sky News Australia. “That recovered over the last couple of years – the need was there from a number of employers and businesses who had demand but couldn’t fill positions.”