Zara Seidler
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That is something that is being felt very acutely by the Liberal Party.
So the last news poll, that is the poll that's commissioned by The Australian, by News Corp, that had One Nation higher than the coalition in terms of a primary vote.
Of course, again, that's just an indication.
what's going to necessarily happen.
But we are seeing a Liberal Party and indeed a coalition that is trying to find its feet and understand what will resonate with the Australian people.
Their first policy is about immigration.
So Angus Taylor set out that this was going to be one part of a bigger immigration kind of overhaul that he would implement if he became Prime Minister.
So again, just to reiterate,
this isn't a policy that's going to be put in front of parliament and then voted on and become law.
The coalition are not in power.
They don't have a majority in the lower or the upper house.
It would be very difficult for that to happen.
And so this is just them saying, if we were to win government in 2028, here's what we would do.
And that's what oppositions tend to do.
So I'll go through them one by one.
I think the thing that would have made the most headlines is that Angus Taylor said that if he was Prime Minister, that under the Liberal government, there would be social media checks on anyone coming in with a visa to this country.
You would have to, if you are applying for a visa to get into Australia, even as a tourist, you would have to provide immigration officials with your social media handles and that your social media handles would be vetted before you were granted a visa.