SMH investigation reveals decade-old policy created permanent migrant underclass
1 Sep 24 · 4d ago · 2 articles · 1 post · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
The Sydney Morning Herald publishes a major investigation documenting how the frozen threshold created an unintended "underclass of the permanently temporary." Australia now hosts over 3 million temporary visa holders, representing 16 percent of the working-age population. Former Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet head Martin Parkinson states voters would never have agreed to an explicit guest worker program.
“What we ended up with was this underclass of the permanently temporary.”
Martin Parkinson
Scott Morrison Immigration Minister (2014)Philip Ruddock Former Immigration Minister (Howard government)Martin Parkinson Former head of Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
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first by SMH.com.au, 4d ago · also Sydney Morning Herald
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The SMH asks when Australia’s immigration program “went off the rails”, but its history is remarkably selective. Before John Howard came to power, Australia’s planned migration intake had fallen to around 65,000–80,000 a year in the early 1990s. Under Howard it was initially reduced further, but then dramatically expanded, reaching 148,200 planned…
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