A US-style “green card lottery” for backpackers, more deportations and new restrictions on international students will form part of Labor’s long-awaited immigration shake-up aimed at driving down net overseas arrivals by 75,000 a year.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has finally released details of Labor’s new migration policies including a “No Further Stay” condition to all visitor visas and a crackdown on rogue migration agents but says it wants coalition support for even more measures.

“We need immigration. We just need to make sure that it is targeted for the needs of Australia in numbers and across the different categories that work for our economy,” Mr Burke told the National Press Club on Thursday while unveiling the changes.

“Almost everyone who comes to Australia is a good guest in our country. These reforms are to ensure that our migration system can be better targeted to the current needs of Australia.”

To help achieve the May budget forecast of bringing Net Overseas Migration to 245,000 this financial year and 225,000 in 2027/28, the government says it will strengthen compliance measures to ensure people without valid visas leave the country.

“If you want to come on a temporary basis to Australia, apply for a temporary visa. If you want to come to Australia permanently, apply for a permanent visa. And if you no longer have a valid visa, you should leave Australia. That’s all it is,” the Minister declared.

Australia’s skilled migration program will also be updated to support priority processing for a range of key sectors, including healthcare, construction, education, law enforcement, defence, resources, agriculture, aquaculture, and fishing.

As flagged by The Nightly this week, the Working Holiday Maker program will introduce a ballot system in the second and third year, and backpackers will continue to have regional work requirements to support communities outside the cities.

The Albanese government says it will also “stabilise processing times” for Working Holiday Maker applications to three months and improve the integrity of student visas by stopping visa hopping and restricting secondary applicants on most education visas.

“(They) effectively jump from visa to visa, use the appeals process to be able to stay here as long as possible until it eventually becomes absurd to not just let them stay,” Mr Burke said.

Addressing community concerns over Australia’s housing crisis, Mr Burke declared current shortages were not caused by immigration, but “immigration needs to be part of the solution”.

“Immigration will need to be part of the solution to help provide some space for housing supply to catch up. We’re both improving supply and reducing demand.”

The Minister also criticised One Nation’s policy of not allowing skilled migrants from bringing their spouses and children to Australia, arguing that large numbers of doctors and construction come to the country with family members.

“Imagine half of the construction workers who we have to build the houses that we need, not coming. Imagine two-thirds of the people who we rely on in aged care or nursing not coming”.

As well as the immediate visa rule changes unveiled on Thursday, Mr Burke said Labor would seek to continue negotiations with the opposition for support on further legislative measures including limiting unrealistic applications for asylum.

“(The changes) are not as comprehensive as I would like them to be. Effectively to be able to add all the levers that I talked about, particularly with respect to the problem of the demand-driven system that we have, you can’t do that without legislation.”

Greens leader Larissa Waters slammed Labor’s immigration overhaul describing it as “a culture war and a dog whistle” and accused the government of copying former Prime Minister Tony Abbot’s migration policy.

“Last time I checked, Australians were happy to see the back of Tony Abbott, and they do not want his migration policy back, and nor do they want to see Trump-style ICE agents policing the streets and throwing human beings into new immigration jails”.

Responding to the announcement, Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie claimed there were no real cuts in the government’s migration policy and that it was “Labor’s problem” if it couldn’t pass tougher immigration laws.

“Remember, we said we’re willing to work with [Labor], but here are our red lines. This is Labor’s problem. We were willing to work with [Labor], and in the end, because of their divided caucus, they just couldn’t come to us and agree to a position,” he told News24.

Earlier this week, One Nation also announced its own policy, vowing to “reset Australia’s immigration system” by slashing the number of temporary visa holders and unlawful non-citizens by more than 750,000 over three years.

Under One Nation’s plan, once the population of temporary visa holders is reduced by approximately 750,000 over three years, a net overseas migration ceiling of 130,000 per year would be put in place and reviewed annually.