The reality of Anthony Albanese’s Big Australia policy is hitting home to Australians struggling to pay the rent, find a place to live or buy groceries.
Australians support immigration when it is managed properly but Labor has made a mess and people are paying the price.
People are rejecting record immigration because Labor can’t manage the economy and inflation is pushing families to the brink.
Under Labor, net overseas migration into Australia hit a record high of 548,800 people for the year ending 30 September 2023.
One in ten people in the country are here on a temporary visa.
Australians are asking a question the government has ignored for too long: where are all these people going to live?
Labor is on track to bring more than one million migrants to the country in their first term of government with no plan to tame inflation, provide cost of living relief or build more homes.
The Prime Minister says his government is not running a Big Australia policy but judge him on his actions not his words.
Migration is at record levels during a cost-of-living crisis because this Labor Government has issued record visas:
• Record 577,295 student visas granted — breaking the old record by 171,553.
• Record 125,090 Temporary Graduate visas granted — more than double the old record of 54,781.
• Record 140,934 Covid work visas granted — more than four times the old record of 31,148 (and when there was no pandemic).
• Record 464,539 Temporary resident visas granted – more than double the old record of 186,148.