Gareth Hutchens
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Because I think that those five years would be enough to ease pressure on housing and medical services and everything else.
Yeah, yeah.
So new costings from the Independent Parliamentary Budget Office last week, it showed that if we assume net overseas migration of roughly 235,000 people a year for the next decade...
then you could improve the budget balance by $80 billion over the decade if you lift the annual migrant intake by 40,000 people more than current assumptions.
If you reduce net migration by 40,000 people, it would deteriorate the budget bottom line by $80 billion.
So think about the big fiscal cost that would come from enforcing net zero migration for five years.
It would be a huge impact.
Yeah, she wants to take a chainsaw to government departments.
She wants to abolish the Department of Climate Change and related agencies.
They say that that would save $30 billion a year, but they haven't provided any costings to back up that claim.
She says she could save $12.5 billion a year by abolishing the National Indigenous Australians Agency.
She could save $1 billion a year by withdrawing Australia from the United Nations and the World Health Organisation and the Paris Agreement.
But One Nation's Treasury spokesman, Barnaby Joyce, he has declined to guarantee that all of One Nation's policies will be independently costed before the 2028 election.
So, I mean, we have to take them at their word at this point.
He told Nine Fairfax Papers that the RBA should be able to provide advice to the federal government about what level of spending it should pursue and which regulations it could cut to lower inflation.
And he said the RBA should be able to state clearly to the government, quote, this is the target money the government should be putting into the economy and no more.
He said the Reserve Bank should be giving a critique about where the government should be on the release of funds.
He said, surely there's a role there for the Reserve Bank to say, look, I've got two choices.
We can put up interest rates or give a directive to the government, whether it takes it up or not, to reduce regulation and spending.
Yeah, put pressure on the government to stop spending.
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