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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