Politics live: One Nation reveals ‘net-negative’ migration policy; electrifying push for Australians to save $5,000 a year

Follow the day’s news live Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Labor has ‘refused to adopt’ Coalition migration asks Perhaps one reason for Labor’s delay in making its migration announcement has been because it wants to see if it can get the Coalition somewhat on board. Well, it seemed that there were a number of things that we had proposed to the government that they simply have refused to adopt. We’ve been pretty clear. We want to make sure that we link our migration numbers to the number of houses that are built, that the housing Minister should come to Parliament each year and announce the number of new houses that have been built, and that will then put a cap on the number of people that can come to the country. But the mix of your migration policy is just as important, and getting that right to make sure that you don’t push the country into recession is really important. Simply saying we’re going to have negative migration for a number of years, negative nom, well, that would be a real shock to the economy, and it would make all Australians poorer. My concern here is that these numbers have simply been plucked out of thin air that there isn’t any modelling behind them. We’ve been talking about migration, from the moment that Angus Taylor became the leader … Work has been going on to the background, but it’s so important to get this right, because sending the country into recession means that all Australians pay the price. It simply can’t be a slogan, you have to do the work behind it. Continue reading...