Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It's a system that we are fixing, because what the three reviews that have been undertaken into our migration system have shown is that the migration system that we inherited was broken. It was a mess. You had people coming in, allegedly to do study, that were not actually doing any training. They were just ticking that box off and then they were continuing to work here and engage here.

Now the figures show as well—and this point must be made—that the projections that were there under the former government were for a higher population than we have in Australia now. And when it comes to housing, that I'm also asked about, what we know is that we inherited a system where there simply wasn't—

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