Australia’s reliance on temporary migration is creating a new economic underclass that risks having a “corrosive” effect on the nation’s society, Labor’s shadow home affairs minister, Kristina Keneally, says. But Keneally said the move belied the fact that Australia’s population would continue to grow strongly on the back of temporary migration numbers. “But, in fact, this is just another ad man’s trick from the ultimate ad man, Scott Morrison [and] what the PM will never admit is his cap on permanent migration cap sits alongside a significant surge in uncapped, temporary migration. In the past this was true, but it is changing – and changing quickly all because of the reliance on temporary migration this government is exacerbating,” Keneally says. “This is about asking our fellow Australians if we want to create – and profit from – an economic underclass.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2020 16:30 UTC