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Labor’s crackdown on student and holiday visas · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Kristen Amitt with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The number of times international students
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  Speaker 1: studying in Australia can change courses will be limited under
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  Speaker 1: the government's new plan to curb migration. Labor will also
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  Speaker 1: introduce a ballot for working holiday visas and put conditions
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  Speaker 1: on visitor visas to prevent people from staying in Australia
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  Speaker 1: long term. And the Department of Home Affairs will be
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  Speaker 1: empowered to cancel the visas of child abusers, perpetrators of
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  Speaker 1: domestic violence and followers of hateful ideologies. It's all part
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  Speaker 1: of the government's plan to reduce net overseas migration by
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  Speaker 1: 75,000 people per year. But visas for skilled migrants working
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  Speaker 1: in healthcare, construction, education, law enforcement, defence, resources, agriculture, aquaculture
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  Speaker 1: and fishing will be fast-tracked under a tweaked ministerial direction.
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  Speaker 1: Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke unveiled the plan at the
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  Speaker 1: National Press Club on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: We need to always remember that... While there are issues
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  Speaker 2: in the immigration program that we are always wrestling with,
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