Australia to Curb Migration as Albanese Faces Voter Backlash
- Government reveals long-awaited strategy to limit migration
- The prime minister’s approval rating has fallen to 40%
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Australia’s government is looking to calm a political storm around record-high migration, at a time when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces plunging approval ratings, stoked by public discontent on everything from inflation to surging rents.
With 2024 set to be a critical year for his government, as national elections loom, Albanese’s center-left Labor government revealed its long-awaited Migration Strategy. The policy will aim to reduce net migration from more than 510,000 in the year ending June 2023 — the population of the Australian state of Tasmania — down to about half that number within two years.