‘Something odd has happened’: Questions deepen over Labor’s ‘premature’ migration cut proposal

​Former Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo says there is “something odd” about Labor’s supposed leaked migration cut.

​The reports suggested the Albanese government was looking at cutting the refugee intake from 20,000 to 13,750, but the prime minister subsequently moved to shut down the proposal.

​“It seems very premature for the cut to have been leaked; maybe it was deliberate to maybe try to get more resources,” Mr Pezzullo told News24.

​“I don’t know what the situation is there.

​“What’s of concern is here we are yet again, Mr Burke, who you know, is normally such a steady set of hands, and his department just being caught wrong-footed. I just don’t know what’s going on.

​“The management of immigration just seems to have fallen apart in recent times.”