Peter Dutton has promised to slash the annual migration rate to 140,000 and cut back international student numbers to address the nation’s housing crisis - if elected next year. In his third budget reply speech delivered on Thursday night, the opposition leader announced a number of policies across migration, housing energy, health and community safety in what he described as a road map to get Australia “back on track”.
A report from the government-appointed National Housing Supply and Affordability Council released in May found the housing crisis would worsen and the Commonwealth would fall short of its goal to build 1.2 million homes by hundreds of thousands. But the prime minister said the budget offered support for the construction industry and increased commonwealth rent assistance. “You can’t undo 10 years of neglect in a couple of years - it takes time to do that,” he told ABC Radio.
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