Need to Know is wrapping earlier today.

Among today’s highlights was Anthony Albanese’s first address as prime minister to the National Press Club. He addressed how migration needed to be approached differently.

Migration is set to be a big talking point at the jobs summit on Thursday and Friday, along with bargaining, skills and women in the workforce.

Here are some of the soundbites:

Criticising the previous government: “It probably wasn’t the wisest decision during the pandemic to tell everyone who was a temporary visa holder to leave. And to provide them with no income and no support, which means many of them have left, with ill feeling towards Australia and that spreads around. We’ve got a globalised labour market. And we need to enhance our reputation.”

Migration cap: “It’s not just about numbers. It’s about how we do this beyond – yes, addressing the urgent needs which are there in particular professions, but also in areas like hospitality there’s massive skills shortages.

Temporary skilled workers: “Unfortunately in some areas, temporary labour have been used to undercut wages and conditions ... on the table is my view that we need more paths to permanent migration rather than just temporary labour.”

More on temporary skilled workers: “The idea that you train someone and bring them out here for a couple of years and then go and try and find someone else to do the same job is, in my view, incredibly inefficient and part of a way that the IR system is potentially undermined. Far better to give someone a sense of ownership and a stake in this country.”

Skills: “We need to look at migration, but we need to do it in a way that doesn’t usurp the need for us to give the first opportunity to Australians to be trained and skilled-up for jobs. Because whilst the unemployment rate is 3.4, the number of people who have been long-term unemployed and the period in which they’ve been long-term unemployed isn’t shrinking.”