Businesses and migrants have been asking why the Minister of Immigration has not confronted the obvious when it comes to immigration's role in our post - COVID-19 economic recovery. The rhetoric from the Government, particularly in recent weeks, is divisive and tone deaf. To suggest that businesses nationwide need to stop employing hard-working migrants, drive up costs and therefore their prices, and fill vacancies in areas with skill shortages is not only ignorant, it's economic sabotage, especially in the regions. I'll be honest, though. I suspect the Government's strategy, if you can call it a strategy, is actually just going to fizz out into nothing, and subsequent rhetoric will be a mix of backtracking and verbal gymnastics—probably during question time—because they can't change reality. Sectors will be crying out for migrants, whether highly skilled or in more manual jobs, and the Government may just have to give in and quietly put the whole immigration reset concept on ice. 