Sacha Barbagat

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240 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

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The Briefing · Migrants must learn English in Lib plan + Should you run a marathon? · 14 May 2026 podcast

He also refused to put a number on how many immigration positions would be cut.

Yeah, so this was the policy we were talking about yesterday that was leaked prior to his speech in that they're going to tie immigration levels directly to how many houses are built.

So the number of people coming to Australia and staying and living is far outpacing the supply of housing.

So they want to tie it to that and Angus Taylor is basically saying we can't give you a number because we don't know how many houses are going to be built each year.

However, he did call it in his speech the biggest cut to immigration numbers ever.

So they must have an idea of a number.

Yeah, sure.

But there has long been pressure for the Coalition to put up actual policies to offer genuine opposition to Labor.

This has been going on for years now.

And what remains to be seen, though, is how the voting public is going to respond to these policy announcements and whether they will help woo back voters from One Nation.

Pauline Hanson says, this policy is straight out of my playbook.

This is exactly how One Nation would play it.

She accused Taylor of having no vision for the future and that's why he's picking up One Nation's policies.

So let's see what the fallout or the potential benefits for the coalition are.

We'll have to keep an eye on it.

The dinner was a warmer moment after what sounds like a pretty tense day of talks.

Xi reportedly warned Trump that if Washington does not handle the Taiwan issue with extra caution, it could push the two superpowers into a, quote, very dangerous place.

Now, those talks are expected to continue today, but we did hear from US Secretary Marco Rubio, who is part of the delegation.

Now, he warned China against taking the self-governed territory by force, referencing Taiwan, saying it would be a terrible mistake.

And he also had this to say on Iran.

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