Kos Samaras

It is something that was absolutely prevalent when I was growing up in the Greek and Italian communities in Australia.

And that migration takes a while.

So you plan to bring over your brother and sister and that period of uniting your family and your new home takes about 10 to 15 years.

You rely on that permanent residency framework to facilitate that.

So if you fall in hard times, the government's there to help you if you're a permanent resident.

Yeah, I think we are now seeing an opposition desperate to survive.

And they think that immigration is the only thing that's going to help them.

They fail to understand the reason they're in this terrible situation is because they've taken their eye off representing working class conservative Australians who have voted for them for many years.

not the top end of town.

And they always resort to immigration because it's easy.

They think that if they try to outperform Pauline Hanson on that, they might bring back some of those votes.

Well, when we ask Australians who have moved to One Nation from the coalition as to why they've done that, the majority have moved over because they think the two-party system is broken, that the economy is not working for them, that they want to burn the place down.

Only about 13%, 13% to 17% have done so because of immigration.

That's exactly what's going to happen.

So...

The Labor camp had this problem versus the Greens.

They thought that if they tried to outgreen the Greens, they will arrest their problem on the left during the last 20 years.

And they gave up that idea and started just focusing on their strengths.

And that seems to have worked for them as an electoral strategy.

But it took a while for them to realise that.