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Peter McDonald, Honorary Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne

Cutting migrant numbers won’t help housing – the real immigration problems not being tackled this election

Immigration is shaping as one of the most potent policy issues of the election campaign.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced a Coalition government would cut the two major migration programs – permanent and net overseas. He has directly linked the number of people coming into the country to high house prices, which feeds into the election’s hot button issue of cost of living:

the first and foremost interest in mind is to get young Australians into housing.

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