2026-09-18 · ABC News (AU)
🔮 A Treasury forecast for net overseas migration (NOM) to fall to 225,000 had already become a political benchmark to judge the federal government against.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has now gone further by formally accepting the figure as a target and effectively turning it into a guarantee.
Most Labor MPs will be glad to see the end of constant speculation about Labor's temporary migration policy, sparked by the six-week delay in unveiling the plan. assertive