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Immigration Minister Tony Burke used a National Press Club address in Canberra, delivered on Citizenship Day, to detail Labor’s overhaul of the migration system after a six-week delay. Burke said net overseas migration has dropped to 292,000, down from 300,000 and 47 per cent below its post-pandemic peak, with the government aiming to bring the figure to 225,000 by 2028.

The changes affect three visa categories. Visitor visas will now carry a “no further stay” condition, student visas will only be extended for those advancing to a higher qualification and can no longer include family members, and working holiday makers face new caps of 45,000 second-year and 5,000 third-year visas. Burke also outlined a return to pre-2015 enforcement for the 77,000 visa overstayers in the country, backed by 100 new compliance officers and 250 extra detention beds, th

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