Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton has conceded he “canvassed different options” with colleagues for changing Australia’s immigration rate, but maintains he supports the current 190,000 annual cap on permanent visas.
Earlier in the week, media reports suggested Mr Dutton had pushed cabinet to shave 20,000 places off the annual cap.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the story was “completely untrue” and urged the journalist at The Australian who broke the story to “consider the reliability of his sources”.
