No budget woes in new migration intake: PM

Updated March 21 2019 - 3:38am, first published 3:30am
An intake figure below 160,000 would've had a direct fiscal impact on the budget, Mr Morrison says.
An intake figure below 160,000 would've had a direct fiscal impact on the budget, Mr Morrison says.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is confident that limiting new migrants to Australia to 160,000 for each of the next for years won't come as a blow to the federal budget.

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