Zara Seidler

So he's talking there about funding an agency to help with deportations.

And he said to fast track deportations of people who have overstayed visas or have run out of legal options to stay in the country.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't think, and he certainly didn't give a straight equivalence there, but he said that it was to fund deportations

law enforcement agencies and to give them more powers to do these sorts of things.

I mean, there are already scenarios where if you overstay a visa and then you appeal that and you run out of appeals that you can't stay in the country.

I was going to say, it's not like... That's not a new thing, but he was just talking about fast tracking that and I guess giving more power for that to happen more frequently or at a quicker pace.

And then the last part was that Angus Taylor singled out a cohort who he believed needed to be reassessed or their visa status needed to be reassessed or would be reassessed if he was in power.

It was Palestinians who had entered Australia since October 7.

So he said, and I'm directly quoting here, he claimed this cohort present a clear risk to our country.

And he said they come to our country from a society run by a barbaric Islamist terrorist organization, an organization that has sought to indoctrinate and radicalize their entire population.

And he claimed that that was the basis on which this entire cohort, the group of Palestinians who had come to Australia on visas, and those visas had been authorised by the Australian government, he believed that that needed to be reassessed and that if he was in government, that would happen.

No, no.

No, it was a speech that he delivered at a liberal think tank and to my knowledge that was the group that he singled out.

I think that it's interesting when you think about the context, because at the beginning, it really helped Peter Dutton when he was associated with Donald Trump.

And it was at the time when those tariffs first started to hit and the economy started to falter, that that started to hurt him.

And so I think it's interesting to think about the global context and Donald Trump's standing globally when you think about if it's kind of net positive or net negative, that's a

tongue twister, to be associated with the US president right now.

But this is certainly, at least ideologically, a shift to the right for the Liberal Party from, as I said, where it was with Susan Lee.

But again, this isn't something that's becoming policy tomorrow.