Coronavirus means Australia won't meet migration forecasts for a decade
Migration in Australia has collapsed amid border closures brought in to stop the spread of the coronavirus, and net migration figures are unlikely to reach government forecasts from the 2019 budget for the rest of the 2020s, according to one immigration expert.
The prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced in March that Australia would close its borders to non-citizens and non-residents. From April, “both inwards movements and outwards movements just collapsed”, a former immigration department deputy secretary, Abul Rizvi, told Guardian Australia.
