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Australia has become over-reliant on temporary migrants, Kristina Keneally warns

Senator Kristina Keneally

Labor Senator Kristina Keneally Source: AAP

Labor's home affairs spokesperson will use a speech in Melbourne to argue against allowing temporary migrant numbers in Australia to surge.


Australia is relying too heavily on temporary migrants to bolster the workforce at the expense of permanent immigrants, Labor's spokesperson for home affairs will warn during a speech on Thursday night.

Presenting the annual Curtin Lecture in Melbourne, Kristina Keneally will claim Australia's growing temporary migrant numbers will "change who we are as a nation, and not for the better".

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