Migration shills pressure Peter Dutton

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has committed to reducing permanent migration to 140,000 a year if the Coalition wins the upcoming federal election.

However, immigration influencer Abul Rizvi has led a group of pro-mass immigration shills warning against the cut, claiming that it is unworkable and would harm the economy.

Rizvi argues that cutting the permanent migrant intake to 140,000 could potentially reduce the annual skilled migrant intake to about 60,000 when partner visa applications are taken into account, from the current level of 132,200 skilled visas currently.

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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.