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Kat Wong and Tess Ikonomou

Dutton pledges to slash migration to fix housing crisis

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has delivered his federal budget reply. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

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".

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