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God almighty. Australia’s only hope of reducing immigration is the ‘racist’ party of Pauline Hanson, but now it’s fiddling the numbers.
One Nation MP David Farley has revealed net overseas migration (NOM) would be about 230,000 a year under One Nation, or 5000 people higher than forecast in the federal budget.
Farley, who was elected earlier this year in the Farrer by-election sparked by the resignation of Sussan Ley, told the ABC’s Insiders program that his party had decided to split the NOM figure in the budget into “true NOM” and other migration, which would be excluded from their total.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
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