Submissions To The Department Of Home Affairs Provided To Relevant Ministers Over The Past 12 Months On Planning The Skilled Permanent Migration Program 2025–26 ​

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This departmental background brief to the Assistant Minister for Immigration outlines the development of Australia's multi-year skilled permanent migration planning model. The document details the timeline of engagement with state and territory governments and National Cabinet decisions, beginning with an April 2023 National Cabinet agreement to expand state and territory roles in migration policy development. Following the August 2023 National Cabinet decision to transition to multi-year planning, a cross-jurisdictional working group was established to develop guiding principles. The December 2023 Ministerial Migration Roundtable endorsed six core principles for the model: working together across jurisdictions, ensuring migration's positive contribution to social cohesion and filling demonstrable skill gaps, focusing on regional distribution, aligning migration with infrastructure and housing investments, coordinating population planning, and enhancing transparency through data-sharing and evaluation tools. The brief indicates these principles underpin the 2025–26 skilled permanent migration program planning.