Action to ease Australia’s crippling visa backlog has resulted in more than 2 million applications to enter the country being processed since June.
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles revealed on Thursday the federal government had made in-roads into reducing the visa backlog, which now stands at 880,000 applications, down from almost 1 million before the federal election.
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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
Michael Read is the Financial Review's economics correspondent, reporting from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia and at UBS. Connect with Michael on Twitter. Email Michael at michael.read@afr.com
