PoliticsAustralia news live: Burke defends immigration policy; China says Aukus ‘destabilises region’

Home affairs minister Tony Burke defended the time taken to release Labor’s immigration plan, saying housing pressures were not caused by immigration but that immigration had to be part of the response. Opposition leader Angus Taylor said numbers were too high and had not been cut. The UK’s Aukus chief rejected China’s claim that the submarine pact destabilises the region.

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