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- The federal government has detailed its plan to ease congestion in Australia's capital cities. The permanent migration cap will come down from 190,000 places per year to 160,000 places per year for the next four years.
- Meanwhile, the federal government says it will use high-speed rail to spread new migrants around the country more evenly.
- Scott Morrison's suggestion that cutting migration will lead to reduced congestion is a “fairytale”, say migration and planning experts.
- One month before ANZAC Day, Australia is reviewing its travel advice for Turkey after controversial comments by the Turkish President. Speaking in Turkey after the terrorist attack in Christchurch, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Australians with anti-Muslim views would be sent home in coffins like their grandfathers -- referring to the World War I battle at Gallipoli.
- Three days away from the New South Wales state election, the result looks like being very close. A poll of more than one thousand people published by the Daily Telegraph newspaper shows the coalition government and the Labor opposition tied at fifty per cent each.
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