Migration Invasion
Hanson scoffs at Taylor’s anti-immigrant pitch
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has claimed that Angus Taylor is copying her policies but won’t deliver on them, after the Liberal leader used his first major policy speech to toughen his migration stance by dismissing the UN’s Refugee Convention and insisting all permanent visa holders must speak English.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said Taylor was appealing to Hanson’s voters by calling for Australia’s immigration system to start discriminating based on values, while Labor’s Pat Conroy accused him of “desperate dog whistling” in an attempt to compete with One Nation.
Taylor harked back to post-war European migration as the gold standard in his speech to the Menzies Research Centre on Tuesday morning, where he elaborated on extracts released the night before that claimed too many self-serving migrants were becoming a drain on the country.
In laying out his argument for enhancing social media screening and tying visa conditions to the Australian values statement, Taylor cited last year’s Bondi terror attack, “genocidal marches in major cities”, antisemitism and radical Islamic preachers as examples of falling migration standards.
NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane and several federal colleagues supported Taylor’s speech, which also revealed the Coalition would restrict Labor’s 5 per cent house deposit scheme to Australian citizens, but it was otherwise condemned by Labor, the Greens and refugee advocates. Continue reading Australia: Libtards Try to Hijack the Hanson Agenda
