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Would slashing net overseas migration “trash the economy” or deliver the necessary population “reset” to restore Australia’s stagnant living standards? Labor and an ascendant One Nation have presented starkly different visions of what a migration program in the national interest looks like. Pauline Hanson, the populist party’s leader, last month announced a plan to cut the number of temporary migrants in Australia by more than 750,000 over three years by targeting international students and family members of skilled migrants. To achieve that reduction, net overseas migration (Nom) would need to turn negative for three years, the party says, before an ongoing cap of 130,000. That compares with Labor’s longer-term Nom target of 225,000, and to the last official estimate of 292,000 in the year to March. Tony Burke, the home affairs minister, said One Nation’s plan, if enacted, would “trash Australian services and trash the Australian economy”. Hanson disagrees, and is quick to blame Australia’s high population growth over the past few years for the economy’s woes.

The Parole Board of Canada knew convicted murderer Jeffrey George Ewert had plans to attend a university and it made a decision this past spring to continue his day parole despite how he previously breached his release conditions, concerning his contacts with women, multiple times. According to a report by CBC, Ewert has been taking law courses at McGill University as recently as earlier this month. The report, published online on Friday, quotes unnamed students upset “that the university did not disclose their peer’s violent history.”

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