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Australia news LIVE: Frydenberg reveals he will not appear before royal commission; Coalition accuses Labor of funding ‘ghettoisation’ of migrant communities

Australia news LIVE: Frydenberg reveals he will not appear before royal commission; Coalition accuses Labor of funding ‘ghettoisation’ of migrant communities

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed rising rents and low wages on Labor’s migration policies in a sweeping attack on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, as she accuses the government of planning to bring in an additional million migrants over the next four years. “Tony Burke isn’t cutting migration … Labor is lying again.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed rising rents and low wages on Labor’s migration policies in a sweeping attack on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, as she accuses the government of planning to bring in an additional million migrants over the next four years.

“Tony Burke isn’t cutting migration … Labor is lying again. And here’s the worst part. You can’t even trust them to stop at a million. This weak government has never once hit a migration target it set. Not once, in four years,” Hanson wrote in a post to X this morning.

The sledge comes a week after Burke delayed a speech outlining the government’s migration overhaul amid a dispute in cabinet. Hanson said the minister was planning to announce “another million people” migrating to the country.

“They already brought in 1.5 million in four years. That’s why your rent exploded, your pay went backwards, and your kids can’t buy a home. It’s why hospitals are turning away sick people.”

After abruptly delaying the announcement of a migration overhaul last week, Burke is expected to provide more detail in coming days, on a package of new measures to cut the net overseas migration intake to its budget forecast of 225,000 per year.

Nine months after the Bondi massacre enlivened debate over social cohesion, Labor is toying with proposals to rework the skills program to better serve the economy, put stricter rules on working holidaymakers and family reunion visas, and cut work rights from visa overstayers. Polls suggest there is support among voters for tighter controls on migration.

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