Appearing on 3AW’s Neil Mitchell program earlier this month, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull claimed that the Government will this year reduce the non-humanitarian permanent migration intake to “somewhere between 170,000 and 180,000”, from 184,000 in 2016-17:
Yesterday, The ABC revealed that while modest cuts to the permanent migrant intake have been made, these have been swamped by a “mysteriously” large rise in bridging visas:
