00:02Pauline Hanson driving the political agenda.
00:05Announcing One Nation's signature migration policy on social media,
00:10leaving it to Barnaby Joyce to front the cameras.
00:13If you've got three million temporary visa holders in Australia,
00:16that's more than half the population in Sydney.
00:18No one can honestly believe that that is tenable.
00:21So the party would slash temporary visa numbers by 775,000 over three years.
00:27More than half the cuts to come from international student and graduate visas,
00:32followed by families of skilled migrants.
00:35While the estimated 80,000 visa overstays would be given three months to leave
00:40or face a lifetime ban on returning.
00:44Backpackers and palm scheme workers untouched by the cuts
00:48that critics warn will hammer the economy.
00:51We won't have the abattoir workers, the hospital workers,
00:53the aged care workers that we need.
00:55You could send the economy into recession.
00:58This is a COVID level shock to the Australian economy.
01:02One Nation disagrees.
01:04Is that going to push Australia into recession?
01:06No.
01:07The major parties are all promising cuts.
01:09One Nation to send net overseas migration
01:12into unprecedented negative territory for three years
01:16before imposing a cap of 130,000 a year.
01:19The coalition set a target of 170,000.
01:23Labor forecasting a figure of 225,000 by 2028.
01:28One Nation is once again on the front foot and setting the political agenda.
01:33But with an elevated profile comes added scrutiny.
01:36Already under fire over a series of personal attacks,
01:40Pauline Hanson is facing fresh condemnation today
01:43over offensive comments she made last year
01:46about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
01:49I absolutely condemn the comments.
01:51It's totally outrageous.
01:52Completely racist.
01:54I think this magification of Australian politics
01:57is toxic and nasty.
02:00Borrowing, he says, from the Trump playbook.
02:02Jane Norman, ABC News, Canberra.
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