00:02Touchdown in Sydney. French backpackers Leandre and Elliot arrived this morning and are ready to get to work.
00:10Pick up fruits, get the food.
00:12Planning to stay for two years, the pair have walked in to a new set of rules.
00:18Obviously if you want to stay for more, that's going to be a bit more challenging.
00:21They'll now enter Labor's new ballot system that'll slash the number of second year backpacker visas to 45,000,
00:29with third year visas capped at 5,000.
00:32Farmers say the move could lead to worker shortages and drive up the price of food.
00:38There is a chance that the quantity of produce will be reduced and of course that'll drive the prices up.
00:43This has been carefully calibrated to think about the impact it will have on our economy.
00:49But the Minister unsure of the impact to wages.
00:53Have you modelled that?
00:54Well, you know, I'm not really able to comment on this.
00:59To address sluggish construction rates, foreign tradies will be given the same visa priority as uni graduates,
01:07in a hope that'll help build the workforce needed to deliver more homes.
01:11We have 140-odd thousand workers short at the moment.
01:16This will not make a major dent in that number.
01:20Labor has vowed its tweaks will see net migration fall to 225,000 people by 2028,
01:27as the Coalition and One Nation want numbers even lower.
01:31Where cuts come from will always be controversial, but the government insists it's got the settings right.
01:37With Labor and One Nation's migration plans in the public domain, focus will soon shift to the Coalition.
01:45A couple of weeks and you'll see our policy.
01:46The migration debate far from finished.
01:49Based on the
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