Home Affairs migration package, 2025–2050

Current ABS NOM vs Home Affairs 245k/225k vs One Nation 130k. A stylised macroeconomic projection — not an official forecast.

Policy note · Burke, National Press Club, 17 Sep 2026

  • ·NOM 245k then 225k (from ABS 292.1k)
  • ·WHM ballot 45k second-year / 5k third-year (from 57k / 31k) — composition narrative, not a separate stock engine
  • ·Student dependants restricted; visa-hopping curtailed
  • ·Overstayer compliance; visitor “no further stay”
  • ·Skilled list: construction, health, education, enforcement, defence, agriculture
  • ·Delivered by ministerial direction

Re-solve from the 2025 jump-off

WHM 45k / 5k · HA student share 27% · skill tilt 0.85 · One Nation cap 130k.

Cards show policy minus current, undiscounted real 2025 dollars. Green means the signed move is better for that metric (rent easing is down).

Home Affairs · 10-year (2035)

Cumulative GDP

−$379 bn

Avg GDP / capita

−$194

Cumulative fiscal

−$18 bn

Rent index

−2.5%

Home Affairs · 25-year (2050)

Cumulative GDP

−$3,107 bn

Avg GDP / capita

−$298

Cumulative fiscal

−$89 bn

Rent index

−13.6%

One Nation · 25-year (2050)

Cumulative GDP

−$7,662 bn

Avg GDP / capita

−$840

Cumulative fiscal

−$215 bn

Rent index

−31.5%

Net overseas migration (thousands)
0200400202520352050
  • Current NOM
  • Home Affairs
  • One Nation
Real GDP (AUD bn)
03,0006,000202520352050
  • Current NOM
  • Home Affairs
  • One Nation
Real GDP per capita
$0k$75k$150k202520352050
  • Current NOM
  • Home Affairs
  • One Nation
Old-age dependency 65+ / 15–64 (%)
0%20%40%202520352050
  • Current NOM
  • Home Affairs
  • One Nation
Net fiscal balance (AUD bn)
-200-1000202520352050
  • Current NOM
  • Home Affairs
  • One Nation
Sectoral wage pressure — construction & health
-0.0%3.0%6.0%202520352050
  • Current · construction
  • Home Affairs · construction
  • Current · health
  • Home Affairs · health

2050 labour shares — Home Affairs vs current

SectorCurrentHome Affairs
Construction / housing12.7%15.0%
Health / aged care15.0%18.3%
Education exports5.7%4.4%
General industry66.7%62.3%

Stylised ABS/Treasury/AIHW-order-of-magnitude projection of Australia, 2025–2050. Not an official forecast. Three NOM paths share the 2025 jump-off; policy divergence starts in 2026. Nested CES production with capital deepening; education exports are a satellite and are not added to GDP. Cumulative GDP and fiscal totals are undiscounted real 2025 dollars. Temporary-visa stocks are not modelled; NOM is a flow only. Sliders re-solve all three scenarios from the shared 2025 jump-off. Cumulative GDP and fiscal totals are undiscounted.