In September 2022, the newly elected Albanese government held the Jobs & Skills Summit with the primary objective of accelerating net overseas migration into Australia.
Then Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil stated that immigration had been the “special sauce in our national story” and called for more.
O’Neil stated that Australia needed to shift “away from a system which is almost entirely focused on how we keep people out to one that recognises that we are in a global war for talent”.
