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Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Albanese government sets unchanged 185 000 intake under permanent migration program | History Defined

The government will keep the permanent migration level for 2025-26 at 185,000, the same level as the previous financial year.

Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced the figure amid a fresh divisive debate about immigration, intensified by the weekend marches calling for lower numbers.

Neo-Nazis were prominent, especially in Melbourne, while on Tuesday self-identifying Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell interrupted a news conference by Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan.

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