Permanent residents should be barred from welfare except for health: Angus Taylor. By Noah Yim in The Australian.

Angus Taylor will propose that welfare payments should be restricted only to citizens in a move that he says will save “many billions” of dollars.

The Liberal Opposition Leader says it is “not fair on hard-working Australian citizens” that permanent residents were eligible for welfare payments such as the NDIS or Jobseeker.

“If you commit to this country we’ll commit to you and that’s how it should be,” he told reporters.

“That’s the Australia I grew up in and it’s the Australia I want to see again.” …

He said permanent migrants would nonetheless get “full access to health”. … New Zealand citizens who have been in Australia long enough would still be eligible, Mr Taylor said. …

Mr Taylor is due to deliver his budget-in-reply speech on Thursday evening.

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