One Nation is eating the LNP alive.
- DemosAU MRP Model projects results for all 150 individual federal seats
- One Nation rise: Approximately 1 in 5 Coalition voters from 2025 federal election now intend to vote for One Nation
- Final result: Labor leads Coalition 56 – 44 per cent 2PP
Some folks still don’t get it.
Liberal moderate powerbroker Andrew Bragg has rejected calls inside the Coalition for savage cuts to net overseas migration, arguing that a severe clampdown on foreigners entering the country would not fix the housing crisis nor resolve crippling trades worker shortages.
…Migration policy pillars being finalised by Ms Ley, home affairs spokesman Jonno Duniam and immigration spokesman Paul Scarr focus on cracking down on specific visa classes, targeting foreign students gaming the system, overhauling the skilled occupation list and restoring a stronger focus on Australian values and language tests for migrants.
Under threat from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Nationals MPs are concerned about divisions in the Liberal Party over going hard on migration.
Some Liberal and Nationals MPs want at least to match Peter Dutton’s pledge to cut the annual net migrant intake, which hit 315,900 in the year to March, by at least 100,000. Treasury has forecast the NOM will fall to 260,000 in 2025-26 and 225,000 annually over the following three years.
…“Immigration is out of control,” Mr Hastie wrote. “It’s bidding up housing prices and rents, and destroying our fragile social cohesion. Families have never had such a rotten deal. Buying a home feels impossible.
“The economy isn’t working for regular Australians. Both parents are forced into work to pay the bills. The government is pushing kids into institutionalised childcare. Everyone is tired and stressed. The Australian dream is fading for many.”
Actually, an immigration freeze will fix the housing problem.
- Rents will collapse.
- Building volumes will fall, resolving the trade shortage.
Dwelling prices won’t fall because the economic impacts of the above will drop interest rates. They will go up.
But less so than otherwise, as a stable population weakens demand.
Andrew Bragg has absolutely no idea what he is talking about, whether it is housing or politics.
By abandoning sensible cuts to immigration, the LNP is driving the centre of the polity to the populist right, One Nation, and killing itself in the process.
The Aussie populist revolution is here.
