Ministerial Migration Roundtable Meeting Agenda, 28 June 2024

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A 28 June 2024 Ministerial Migration Roundtable agenda from the Department of Home Affairs covered major migration policy reforms announced in the 2024-25 Budget. The meeting allocated $22.2 million over four years to implement reform measures including a new multi-year permanent migration planning model ($3.9 million), a data-matching arrangement with the Australian Tax Office to detect exploitative employers of temporary skilled visa holders ($1.9 million), and a new National Innovation visa with permanent closure of the Business Innovation and Investment Program ($1.4 million). An additional $15 million was committed to migrant worker education initiatives on workplace protections. The 2024-25 permanent migration program was set at 185,000 places: 132,200 in the Skills Stream, 52,500 in the Family stream, and 300 in the Special Eligibility stream. Agenda items included regional migration