, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil insisted she was not advocating for a "big Australia" but argued the nation's approach to immigration needed a significant overhaul.
"The budget hurts working Australians. Worse, it risks creating a generation of working poor Australians," he said on Thursday."Unless you slay that dragon, well, essentially you're not governing. You're not doing your job," she told ABC TV on Friday. "Cities, towns and suburbs are already choked with congestion, yet in this budget - as it did in the last - the government is cutting infrastructure spending already announced," he said.
"We've been built on the back of the migrant story and we want that to continue ... but if you don't manage your migration intake, then it can actually do economic harm rather than good," she said.