反对派承诺不削减最低工资，并实施澳大利亚历史上“最大规模”的移民削减。
反对派提议为重大项目额外引入4.5万名临时熟练工人，旨在促进包括贝塔卢（Beetaloo）气田在内的开发项目。
Opposition promises no cuts to minimum wages in "biggest" migration cut in Australia’s history The Opposition’s proposal to bring an extra 45,000 temporary skilled workers into Australia for major projects is designed to boost developments including the gas fields at Beetaloo.
联盟党影子内政部长乔纳森·杜尼安（Jonathon Duniam）向POLITICO表示，重大项目签证将用于解决劳动力供应瓶颈，并补充了此前加快国家战略优先项目（包括化石燃料）的政策。
The Coalition’s shadow home affairs minister Jonathon Duniam told POLITICO the major projects visa will be used to fix labor supply bottlenecks and complements an earlier policy to fast-track national strategic priority projects including fossil fuels.
该政策于9月份发布，暗示需要政府干预以“扭转工党针对石油和天然气的监管壁垒”，从而使昆士兰州的塔鲁姆海槽（Taroom Trough）和西澳大利亚州的布朗斯盆地（Browse Basin）等项目受益。
That policy, released in September, suggested government intervention was needed to “reverse Labor’s regulatory barriers that single out oil and gas” to benefit projects including Queensland’s Taroom Trough and Western Australia’s Browse Basin.
尽管联盟党呼吁在四年内发放4.5万份重大项目签证和60,400多份临时技术签证，但该政策却遭到商业集团的严厉批评。
这些集团警告称，通过削减过桥签证和取消临时毕业生签证，将净海外移民在两年内降至10万人，将对经济造成损害。
Despite calling for 45,000 major project visas and 60,400 more temporary skilled visas over four years, the Coalition policy has been panned by business groups who warn reducing net overseas migration to 100,000 for two years through cuts to bridging visas and abolishing temporary graduate visas would be harmful to the economy.