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One Nation founder Pauline Hanson says ‘Australia is bursting at the seams’ as she slammed the Albanese government over Australia’s soaring immigration intake.
In a scathing takedown posted on Twitter, Senator Hanson claimed that ‘Labor’s record high immigration is literally forcing Australian families to live on the streets – and winter is coming.’
Senator Hanson referred to an article in The Australian revealing there will be 650,000 immigrants arriving over this financial year and the next. She pointed out that this was more than the populations of Canberra and Darwin combined.
‘Australia is bursting at the seams,’ she wrote.
‘Australia is full – and so are our hospitals and schools.’ ’We already have a shortfall of almost 700,000 homes for the people who are already here.’
She accused the Labor federal government of failing to fix the housing crisis and only making it ‘even worse’.
‘In my home state of Queensland, homelessness has increased 22 per cent in only five years,’ Senator Hanson wrote.
‘Increasing numbers of Australian families are living in tents, in sheds, in caravans and on the street.’
Senator Hanson poured scorn on Labor’s plan to build more social housing. ’Labor’s pathetic housing future fund – if it even gets up – will make absolutely no difference,’ she wrote.
‘30,000 new homes in five years? What a sad joke.’
Senator Hanson argued that as Australia could not accommodate all the newcomers the nation should cut back on those moving Down Under.
‘We should prioritise net-zero immigration, not net-zero carbon dioxide,’ she wrote.
‘We must stop this flood or we will all drown.’
For Senator Hanson it was a return to the type of rhetoric that first made her name and gained her a measure of notoriety.
In her 1996 maiden parliamentary speech in the House of Representatives Senator Hanson caused a storm of controversy by claiming Australia ‘was in danger of being swamped by Asians’.
Senator Hanson’s views on this and Aboriginal issues had already seen her disendorsed by the Liberal party, then led by John Howard.
Despite being elected under the label of being a Liberal she entered parliament an independent and in February, 1997 she formed One Nation.
After stints in and out of One Nation, Ms Hanson was re-elected at last year’s May poll as the party’s first choice for a further six-year Senate term as a Queensland senator.
