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said that people should not be allowed into Australia if they don't believe in democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of association, warning that, quote, we have stopped
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celebrating our great nation.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
Now, these are all very motherhood statements.
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How do you prove that?
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Where do you go to get people who believe in the great Australian values?
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What are they?
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I would say that in 2026, many Australians who've been here for their whole lives couldn't tell you what that exactly is.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
How this is all going to work in practice is not exactly clear.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
But one thing that is clear is there will be a focus on countries that are, quote, social democracies.
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Who are they?
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
Well, you, obviously, New Zealand, but the UK, the US, and Japan were the three countries that Angus Taylor mentioned.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
And so that's a clear reference to we would be limiting the number of people coming from the Middle East and from parts of Africa.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
Now, that's not gone down well with the Greens.
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They've called the policy racist.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
Tony Burke, who holds a seat in Sydney full of people who have migrated from the Middle East...
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
also slammed the policy in saying that Angus Taylor doesn't know what he's doing.
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Steve Price: Australia Correspondent on Qantas cutting back domestic flights, Angus Taylor's new immigration policy, Meghan and Harry's visit
So this is the first real shot, I think, Mike, in the lead up to the next election.
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Yeah the government can't defend that and they've in fact talked already quietly about what they might do with the wait for this figure 65,000 visa overstayers who are currently in Australia and have been here for many years how do you round those people up and move them out of the country without someone saying
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Well, you're just being like Donald Trump and his ice mob and you're trying to ruin the good lives of people who are trying to stay in Australia.
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So One Nation, can Angus Taylor pull the vote back there?