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Bragg unveils Coalition immigration plan · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. How many people should move to
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  Speaker 1: Australia each year. Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has put a
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  Speaker 1: number on it for the Coalition, which says it wants
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  Speaker 1: to link net overseas migration to housing completions. Bragg says
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  Speaker 1: that means the number is below one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: thousand people a year. Australia's present net overseas migration intake
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  Speaker 1: is just over three hundred thousand people. That's the total
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  Speaker 1: increase when you take out those who've left the country
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  Speaker 1: with an intention to stay overseas. Labour wants to get
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  Speaker 1: it down to under two hundred and fifty thousand, but
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  Speaker 1: there are variables the government can struggle to predict or
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  Speaker 1: control temporary visas and students who decide they want to
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  Speaker 1: stay in the country. Andrew Bragg says the first targets
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  Speaker 1: for reduction should be the high numbers of international students,
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  Speaker 1: working holidaymakers and unskilled workers. Nigel Farrage will face an
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  Speaker 1: opponent with a bin on his head in this week's
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  Speaker 1: UK by election. The Reform UK leader is the favorite
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  Speaker 1: to win the Clacton by election in Essex, northeast of
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  Speaker 1: London on Thursday. His main opponent is a spoof character,
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  Speaker 1: count Binface, created by comedy writer John Harvey. Binface has
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  Speaker 1: run in several by elections in recent years, including against
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  Speaker 1: the UK's new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham in Makerfield in July.
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  Speaker 1: The Labour Government and the Conservatives have both declined to
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  Speaker 1: run a candidate against Farrage, which has annoyed some voters,
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  Speaker 1: so it's possible there'll be a protest vote for the bin.
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  Speaker 1: If not, Farrage will be back in Parliament with what
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  Speaker 1: he claims will be a fresh mandate to pursue his
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  Speaker 1: policies of lower immigration and a return to what he
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  Speaker 1: calls traditional British values. The Clacton by election was triggered
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  Speaker 1: by Farage's resignation from the House of Commons last month.
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  Speaker 1: He quit his seat scrutiny over his finances, including the
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  Speaker 1: revelation that he failed to declare a multimillion dollar gift
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  Speaker 1: that matters the subject of an investigation by the Parliament's
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  Speaker 1: Standards Department. Farage has always denied wrongdoing. Check out those
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  Speaker 1: airports and a dire shortage of air traffic controllers. That's
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