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The coalition would make welfare only available to Australian citizens and tie the number of migrants to new homes if elected. Liberal leader Angus Taylor will detail the policy vision in his budget reply speech tonight where he will also announce his own bold plans for tax reform.

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00:01So the coalition is saying that there are 17 welfare programs currently available to
00:07non-citizens that shouldn't be. So they're saying if they won government they would
00:12ensure that citizens only were able to access some of these programs. These are things like
00:17the pension, Ausstudy, youth allowance, those sorts of things. The NDIS as well is on their
00:23hit list. So for example at the moment if you are a permanent resident in this country,
00:28a migrant you are potentially eligible for the NDIS as are some people on a protected
00:34special visa category which includes New Zealanders. Paid parental leave as well. The coalition
00:40is saying that even if you are a permanent resident of this country you should not be
00:46able to be paid parental leave if you go and have a baby while you're working. Now Tim Wilson
00:52the Shadow Treasurer says that this isn't about attacking migrants, it's about
00:57encouraging them to more actively participate in Australia. Have a listen.
01:03Our focus is on making sure that people who come here can come, contribute and commit to
01:08the future of the country and making sure that those services provide a pathway, when people
01:13are providing a pathway to integrate into the country it should be on the base of economic
01:17participation which is in their interests as well as ours. If we set new Australians up on
01:22a pathway where they feel like they get ahead on the base of welfare I think we're failing
01:26them.
01:28Tim Wilson there and of course we will hear much more detail about this in Angus Taylor's
01:32budget reply speech tonight. As for the government they say that it's dangerous policy and it
01:37is taking from One Nation's playbook and essentially trying to divide the country.
01:42And what's the detail on the policy that would link migration to housing?
01:47So this is a policy that would essentially ensure that the only migrants could, only a
01:53migrant could come in if a house is built. It's a one to one ratio situation. Not one
01:58family in but one migrant in for every new house built and this is what the Coalition says
02:03it would do to try and tackle the housing supply issue. To give you an example of the rate of
02:09change that would happen if that policy was implemented. The net overseas migration in
02:16the last financial year was about 306,000 people. The number of homes built in that time was about
02:22174,000. So there'd be a drastic cut in migration if only one person was allowed in for every home
02:29built.
02:30Now the shadow, the opposition leader sorry Angus Taylor of course has not detailed what exactly
02:37he will do to decide which migrants come in and which migrants don't. Will he be cutting
02:42skilled migrants? Will it be university students? He says those details will come much closer to the
02:48election. And what about the plans on bracket creep? So this is something that has been detailed a
02:54little bit this afternoon and we will hear more about tonight. As you've heard the opposition has
02:59been incredibly critical of the government's tax reform plans and it says that it needs to address
03:03this bracket creep. Now bracket creep is something that happens when inflation pushes wages into a
03:10higher tax bracket so people end up being taxed more but they don't have any more purchasing power.
03:15What the Coalition is planning to do is to tie income tax rates to the consumer price index so that
03:23they would go up with inflation. Now this policy would be incredibly costly. We've heard that from experts
03:30this afternoon the opposition needs to detail how it's going to pay for it. At this stage they say
03:36it would be offset so they either need to find a lot more revenue from somewhere or they would need
03:42to find something to cut.
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