Coalition rules out cuts to another visa class despite vowing to slash immigration by 100,000

Bridget McKenzie and Peter Dutton campaigning in early April. McKenzie says ‘we need those backpackers out in our regions’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Coalition would not cut working holiday visas as part of its promise to reduce migration, senior Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie says.

The Coalition has been under pressure to release further details about which immigration streams it would target in government. Peter Dutton has claimed the increase in immigration of the past two years has driven up house prices.