Sam Hawley
speaker
5,676 appearances
141 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
Sam Hawley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 141 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 31.
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Yeah, it did.
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And then when the borders reopened, the Morrison and then the Albanese governments, they needed to, well, play catch up, right?
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So what did we see?
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Yeah, so just explain to me then, David, how the government decided on those figures.
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How did it come up with the net overseas migration number?
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No, exactly, because it's sort of not a precise science,
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it?
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It's not exact because the prediction of how many people will come and how many people will leave, well, it's never really the reality.
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All right, well, David, let's turn to the politics of today then.
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Now, as you mentioned, we are a nation that has prospered from migration over many, many years.
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But after the pandemic, house prices and rents, they just started to become a real concern for Australians, right, because we saw this huge influx of migrants, particularly students, into the country.
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And there just wasn't enough housing to accommodate everyone anymore.
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That's why it became very political, a political hot potato.
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OK, so Labor, the government, it needs to, in a sense, I suppose, David, neutralise this as a political issue, right?
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You know, we had Tony Burke, of course,
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He cancelled his press club address, the immigration minister.
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He was going to outline what some new migrant number or we're not sure because it never went ahead and maybe it will never go ahead.
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Where's that up to?
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The
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Yeah, absolutely.
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