The Labor Government has waited seven months to deliver its response to the Nixon Review which highlighted serious organised crime in relation to student visas.
Yet Labor’s major response was to re-announce funding announced in the May Budget.
The Nixon Review revealed corruption and criminality in the visa system.
And in the seven months the Government sat on the review, the number of international students in Australia reached record levels.
While the government was doing nothing about the Nixon Review:
• 11,023 additional asylum seekers lodged claims in Australia.
• The total number of asylum seekers in Australia grew to more than 105,000.
• More than 320,000 additional international students arrived.
The Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says Labor can’t run a migration system where people stay for as long as they want.
Yet Labor deported just 2,161 criminals and failed asylum seekers in their first year in government compared to 6,352 deportations a year under the Coalition (average 2013-2019).
The Australian people know who to trust when it comes to border security.
Record asylum seekers arrived by boat under Labor. The Coalition stopped the boats.
Labor put children in detention. The Coalition moved those children out of detention.
Labor is now stretching their Nixon Review announcement like they’re trialling a four-day Test match.
Instead of attending every possible Voice campaign event across the country, the Immigration Minister Andrew Giles should have been addressing visa fraud. This is just another example of Labor not being focussed on governing because they’ve been distracted by running the ‘divisive’ Yes campaign.