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Federal politics live: One Nation reveals plan to cut migration by 750k over three yearsBy political reporter Courtney Gould
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One Nation will today unveil plans to cut Australia’s temporary migration program by targeting international students and families of skilled migrants.
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Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:45amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:45am
One Nation’s migration policy ‘poorly thought through’
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By Courtney Gould
Liberal deputy Jane Hume has called on One Nation to release the modelling behind it’s migration plan.
The minor party wants to slash migration by more than 750,000 over three years in a move it says would deliver net-negative overseas migration.
Hume agrees that “something has to change” but One Nation’s “poorly thought through” policy could risk the economy.
“My concern with what we’ve seen this morning from One Nation is it’s simply headline numbers without any detail of the modelling that’s underneath it,” she tells ABC’s Radio National Breakfast.
“Already today, economists have come out and said that potentially with the numbers that One Nation are throwing around you could send the economy into recession.
“That means everybody will end up paying for a poorly thought through migration policy.”
Hume says if the government and opposition are expected to model their policies, so should One Nation.
Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:31amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:31am
Joyce stands by Hanson’s comments about PM’s mother
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By Courtney Gould
One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has defended leader Pauline Hanson after she criticised the time the prime minister’s mother spent living in public housing.
In a podcast interview earlier this year, that re-surfaced over the weekend, Hanson said people should only live in housing commission for a limited time, and it was “not on” for his mother to have spent much of her life there.
Anthony Albanese told reporters on Sunday he was “stunned” by the attack on his mother, who had severe rheumatoid arthritis, which crippled her. She died in 2002.
Speaking this morning, Joyce stood by the remarks.
“The whole log cabin story of living in a housing commission home that the prime minister rolls out over and over again, for a person who owns multiple houses, and good luck to him and God bless him, and he’s about to go live in a $4.5 million house on the Central Coast, it just doesn’t wash,” he told Sunrise.
“[Hanson] didn’t say that she [Albanese’s mother] was a bad woman, or that she had done some form of theft or anything like that. The question was put to her about public housing, and I stand by what she said.”
Labor’s Tanya Plibersek, who was on the panel with Joyce, attacked Joyce by comparing his boarding school upbringing, to the PM’s — who was caring for his mother.
Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:29amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:29am
Government tips $300m into new grants for crisis housing
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By Ewa Staszewska
The federal government has announced $300 million in new grants for crisis and transitional housing.
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says the investment will deliver 500 additional homes to help house 19,000 vulnerable Australians.
“For too long, our nation hasn’t built enough homes of any kind, but the shortage we’re most concerned about is crisis housing, for Australians facing homelessness at the toughest moment of their lives,” O’Neil says in a statement.
The funding, previously earmarked as concessional loans, will be converted to grants for the sector to access to expedite new projects.
Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek says it will help more women and children leave violent situations.
“This new investment will give thousands of women and children the opportunity to leave, find safety and live in a home where they can be safe and rebuild their lives,” Plibersek says.
It’s part of more than $1.2 billion committed to providing safe accommodation for those at risk of homelessness during times of crisis.
Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:19amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:19am
One Nation migration plan would ‘smash’ healthcare, construction workforce
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By Courtney Gould
Labor frontbencher Mark Butler has dismissed One Nation’s plan to slash migration as a “tabloid headline” that would “smash” construction and healthcare workforce.
The minor party wants to slash migration by more than 750,000 over three years by targeting international students and the families of skilled migrants.
Butler says the plan goes too far.
“This would absolutely smash industries, like construction, that rely very heavily on migrant workers but also devastate health and aged care and disability sectors that particularly rely on migrant workers — especially in rural communities where it’s very difficult to find Australian trained doctors,” he tells Nine.
He argues the government has reduced migration levels by around 50 per cent since the pandemic.
The government has yet to release its long-awaited migration plan after a scheduled speech by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was cancelled last month.
Asked if One Nation had beaten them to the punch, Butler doesn’t think so but wouldn’t set a time frame for when Labor would release its own plan.
Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:07amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:07am
Boele’s push to define ‘affordable housing’
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By Lexie Jeuniewic
Independent MP Nicolette Boele will today introduce a private member’s bill to parliament to establish a nationally consistent definition of “affordable housing”.
Under the proposal, the definition would be tied to household incomes and attached to Commonwealth housing programs and funding agreements.
Boele says her push has attracted support from organisations including the Property Council of Australia, Australian Community Housing, and Planning Institute of Australia.
“We have to have all of the pieces of a system that give the confidence and the integrity for the community, so that we know what we’re doing with our efforts with taxpayers’ money towards delivering affordable homes actually does deliver for us, and for the people who really need those homes.”
The Bradfield MP says the definition could help stamp out what she labels “an unregulated cowboy industry”.
“Just listening to people in my electorate who see that apartments are advertised for $1,100 a week and they can be counted as affordable housing, because there is nothing in the system that says otherwise.”
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Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:07amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 7:07am
One Nation reveals plan to cut migration by 750k over three years
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By Courtney Gould
One Nation will today unveil plans to cut Australia’s temporary migration program by targeting international students and families of skilled migrants.
Under the plan, net overseas migration would temporarily dip into the negatives over three years, down by more than 750,000, before settling at an annual target of 130,000.
Temporary skilled worker visas will remain demand-driven with no new cap on primary worker visas. However, One Nation wants to remove the around 70,000 secondary visas granted to family members.
The party says it will tighten eligibility for student graduate visas. International student visas will be capped at 100,000 a year. One Nation wants a new visa for post-grads to be established to attract “high-value” science, engineering and medical research students.
Meanwhile, visa overstayers will be given three months to leave. If they don’t do so voluntarily, they will face enforcement and a lifetime ban on returning to Australia.
Mon 14 Sep 2026 at 6:47amMon 14 Sep 2026 at 6:47am
Good morning 👋
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By Courtney Gould
Hello friends. Welcome to our politics live blog. I’m Courtney Gould from the ABC’s Parliament House team, here to guide you through the day.
Politicians are already walking the halls of Parliament House as another sitting week is upon us. One Nation is kicking the week off by unveiling the details of its migration policy (more on that to come).
It’s looking like it could be a busy morning so let’s just jump straight into blogging.
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