One Nation plans to cut 750,000 temporary visa holders
One Nation plans to cut 750,000 temporary visa holders over three years.
One Nation has announced plans to cut 750,000 temporary visa holders from Australia over three years. The plan targets student and graduate visa schemes most heavily.
Student visa numbers, including family members, would drop from about 590,000 to 350,000. Graduate visas would fall from about 270,000 to just 40,000.
Family visas linked to temporary skilled workers would be phased out entirely. That group would shrink from about 263,000 to 160,000.
The cuts affect roughly three million temporary visa holders currently in Australia. None of them can vote in elections where their fate is decided.
A Melbourne teacher on a work visa arrived from India eight years ago as a student. She says the uncertainty has become urgent for her family.
Many visa holders fear being targeted because they have no political voice.
Why it mattersThe policy would reshape Australia's migration system. It would reshape the working and student populations that contribute to the economy.
AustraliaAustralia's education and skilled worker pipelines would contract sharply, affecting universities, employers and the roughly three million people holding temporary visas.
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