Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.
Australian Labor Party party platform
As the party of government, Labor sets Australia's annual permanent Migration Program planning level, held at 185,000 places for 2025-26 (about 132,200 skilled and 52,500 family places); it favours permanent over temporary migration and has acted to bring net overseas migration down from its post-pandemic peak. The 2023 ALP National Platform's immigration chapter, 'Strong borders and a strong humanitarian immigration program', covers the humanitarian intake, settlement services and refugee assessment alongside border protection.
Liberal Party party platform
The party's plan commits to a "values-based" migration system placing the Australian Values Statement at the centre of visa conditions as a universal and enforceable requirement, alongside mandatory English-language learning for permanent visa holders, enhanced screening to stop extremists entering, restoration of Temporary Protection Visas, and processing or deportation of 70,000 visa overstayers.
Australian Greens party platform
The platform states Australia has humanitarian and legal obligations to accept refugees and reunite families under international human rights law and the Refugee Convention, and calls for immigration policy to be non-discriminatory on grounds such as nationality, ethnicity, religion or sexuality. Stated commitments include ending indefinite immigration detention with a 7-day cap, closing offshore processing in Nauru and Papua New Guinea, and increasing the humanitarian intake to 50,000 places a year.
Victorian Socialists party platform
The party states solidarity with refugees against Australia's "border-protection regime" and with migrants, and calls to build a mass movement to overturn what it describes as decades of bipartisan policy toward refugees, in support of refugee and migrant rights.
The Nationals party platform
The party's published material backs the Coalition's "Australian Values Migration Plan", enshrining compliance with the Australian Values Statement as a universal visa condition, restoring Operation Sovereign Borders settings, immediately cancelling visas of criminal non-citizens, and reintroducing fast-track visa appeal processes; the party's regional plan also commits to a 25 per cent reduction in the permanent migration program for the first two years.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party party platform
The party's immigration page commits to cutting immigration by over 570,000 people from current Labor levels by 'capping visas at 130,000 per year'. The page names no visa categories, does not distinguish permanent from temporary visas or grants from arrivals, and states no net overseas migration target, so the scope of the cap is unspecified. One Nation's own posts describe the figure differently across time: a cap on visas (11 February 2025), a target of around 130,000 to 160,000 people a year (26 August 2025), and a cap on net migration at 130,000 described as roughly net-neutral (10 December 2025). Former Immigration deputy secretary Abul Rizvi reported in March 2026 that the policy had been revised to cap arrivals at 130,000, producing net overseas migration of about minus 100,000. The policy also commits to deporting 75,000 people it identifies as illegal migrants (visa overstayers, illegal workers and unlawful non-residents), an eight-year waiting period for both citizenship and welfare, curbing Administrative Review Tribunal appeals, reintroducing Temporary Protection Visas, ending student visa pathways it describes as a backdoor to permanent residency, refusing entry to migrants from nations it says foster extremist ideologies, and withdrawing Australia from the UN Refugee Convention.
Animal Justice Party party platform
The party states its policies aim to maintain a compassionate approach to migrants and refugees while keeping home-grown population growth at or below zero, and supports expanding needs-based and family-reunion immigration; on asylum seekers, it states Australia has a moral and legal obligation to comply with ratified international treaties and condemns processing asylum seekers in countries not approved by the UNHCR.
Family First Party party platform
Family First states that Australia's immigration levels are too high and unsustainable, putting pressure on the cost of housing, groceries and healthcare, and it pledges to fight to dramatically cut net overseas migration while freeing up more land for housing.
Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party party platform
The party states it will work with the government of the day to plan and implement solutions to mitigate the negative effects of a growing and highly concentrated population, and states support for offshore processing of illegal migrants. It also calls for a review of the impact of immigration and refugee intake on domestic aid supplies and projects.
Katter's Australian Party party platform
The platform states that migrants and long-term visa entrants should be limited to levels Australia can afford based on job creation and nation-building infrastructure, with intake reflective of the necessary facilities and infrastructure available. It states those permitted to migrate should be best able to assimilate and integrate, with a demonstrated commitment to work and to Australian values, while population growth is needed but should be distributed widely across the country, especially into northern Australia.
Libertarian Party party platform
The party supports a market-driven immigration system prioritising skilled workers, and proposes an immigration fee (paid by the migrant or sponsoring employer) so new arrivals contribute fairly to public services and infrastructure, contrasting this with what it calls the current mass-immigration approach driven by federal bureaucracy.
Centre Alliance party platform
States that immigrants have played a critical role in building Australia and supports continuing safe, orderly immigration, particularly of younger skilled families and investors; proposes a special visa category to encourage investors to settle in areas of low population and economic growth.
Australian Christians party platform
The party states Australia should continue being a welcoming country to migrants and refugees, but that citizenship should be sustainable and based on mutual agreement embracing core values and the rule of law; it also proposes a Special Assistance Visa category for persecuted Christians and other minorities.
Democratic Labour Party party platform
The party states it wants immigrants who will integrate and assimilate — people who come to Australia to work, contribute to society and see themselves as "one of us" — and it believes in fostering one national identity and national allegiance while rejecting politically-imposed multiculturalism.
United Australia Party party platform
The party's New Deal platform proposes a temporary policy of zero immigration until Australia can absorb current numbers, limiting arrivals to family reunions and work permits for projects of national significance. It states that infrastructure cannot support continued high immigration, citing congested roads, overflowing hospitals, full schools, high rents and low housing availability.