Saturday Night Live with Simon Owens
Oct 8, 2026 · 11 min · 6 segments
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Peter van VlietGuestMichael PachiGuest
Josh BryantHostI think that if we look at the key takeaways, there's one central theme, and that is that they all want to cut the migration rate.
It's talking about a massive cut to the migration rate to the point that One Nation thinks that its policy could actually lead to a recession because it wants to go for a hard reset of no more than about 130,000 people.
They're talking about a net migration rate of about 100,000 in their first two years of government.
And then it would gradually increase to about 160,000 as more housing becomes available.
So the coalition, it was last off the blocks, but it's hoping to hit that middle ground.
It's a question of not only, as you said, by how much, but also how you get there, the types of visas and those sorts of things.
Yeah, look, essentially there are a couple of variations between the three parties, but not many.
What all of them are looking at is slashing the number of people who come across on various visa classes.
That seems to be In their sites, whether you're Labor, One Nation or the Coalition, student visas really do seem to be the visa class that's coming under most scrutiny.
That's people that might be on one certain form of visa that's about to expire.
They try and get themselves onto another form of visa so that they can stay in Australia for a bit longer.
I think that if we look at the key takeaways, there's one central theme, and that is that they all want to cut the migration rate.
It's talking about a massive cut to the migration rate to the point that One Nation thinks that its policy could actually lead to a recession because it wants to go for a hard reset of no more than about 130,000 people.
They're talking about a net migration rate of about 100,000 in their first two years of government.
And then it would gradually increase to about 160,000 as more housing becomes available.
So the coalition, it was last off the blocks, but it's hoping to hit that middle ground.
It's a question of not only, as you said, by how much, but also how you get there, the types of visas and those sorts of things.
Yeah, look, essentially there are a couple of variations between the three parties, but not many.
What all of them are looking at is slashing the number of people who come across on various visa classes.
That seems to be In their sites, whether you're Labor, One Nation or the Coalition, student visas really do seem to be the visa class that's coming under most scrutiny.
That's people that might be on one certain form of visa that's about to expire.
They try and get themselves onto another form of visa so that they can stay in Australia for a bit longer.
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