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Zara Seidler

👤 Speaker
250 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

Yeah, exactly.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

And it's interesting.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

So this is already, as we said, being done in the U.S.,

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

And I was thinking about this when I heard Angus Taylor announce it because one of the things that the Liberal Party review found after the last election was that comparisons between Peter Dutton and Donald Trump really hurt Peter Dutton.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

But now Angus Taylor has almost entirely adopted the same protocols and the same process as

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

the United States has, which is just an interesting observation.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

Yeah, I think that there's no hiding the fact that this is an attempt to get

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

voters who the Liberal Party and the Coalition might be losing to One Nation, because this is quite a strong stance on immigration that, you know, even the Susan Lee Liberal Party didn't adopt.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

And that, again, the party moves from left to right and centre wherever it might go.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

But that was the first announcement by Angus Taylor.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

Another one was essentially that so Australia has a non-discriminatory immigration system and what that means is that we don't discriminate based on nationality, race, gender or faith when we are assessing who can come into this country.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

It would be illegal to do that, right?

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

Well, what Angus Taylor said is that he thinks that our country's immigration system must discriminate based on Australian values.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

So he's saying that compliance with Australian values has to be a compulsory visa condition for all temporary and permanent visa holders.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

So if you don't comply with Australian values and it's interesting there is it's a document of Australian values that people entering on these visas need to sign and he was saying that that's just been a checkbox thing and that people haven't actually been upholding those values and so he needs it to be a legal requirement and that if you do not uphold Australian values that you should be kicked out of this country or not allowed in in the first place.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

I mean you didn't come here on a visa so you wouldn't have had to ever sign this or rather read it.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

So I have it up in front of me.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

It's the Australian Values Statement.

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

It says, I understand that Australian society values respect for the freedom and dignity of the individual, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of association, commitment to the rule of law,

The Daily Aus
The Liberals’ immigration plan

parliamentary democracy, equality of opportunity for all people, a fair go, and that the English language is the national language and an important unifying element of Australian society.