Giles gaslights as he throws immigration floodgates wide open

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In question time on Wednesday, Immigration Minister Andrew Giles boasted how the Albanese Government was remedying “a decade of cruelty and a decade of neglect” from the former Coalition Government and had processed 3.4 million visa applications since June.

Giles also promised that the contrived “one million visa backlog” would be reduced to 600,000 by the end of the year.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.