Unnatural Selection: Deeply Unqualified Australian & American Political Comedy
Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min · 11 segments
On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast, we discuss: Labor tightens visa rules as Tony Burke vows migration targets will be met.‘One of the great Australian achievements’: Howard…
I was weighing up between going with victim or target, but this, this week's, uh, topic of discussion is, uh, the one, uh, Tonathan Burke, um, who gave a speech at the, uh, the press club today, unveiling like Pauline Hanson, whipping off a burqa in parliament, unveiling his absolute turd of a policy, uh, to reduce the migration targets.
You might be wondering, is there some sort of problem that this policy is aiming to solve? Well, in a way, it's a political problem that they're trying to solve with this policy, and that is the rise of One Nation.
Is there an economic reason? Is there any other justification for reducing migration in this matter? And agreeing with One Nation's framing that migration is to blame for the housing crisis? No, that...
you are, you could argue that a political attack from One Nation and them seizing power as a result would be bad economically.
Second or third order effects, I believe, is what that's referred to in the lecture chart.
So, Labor is tightening its visa rules for international students and backpackers while increasing efforts to remove overstayers as it seeks greater control over migration.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said housing pressures mean net overseas migration forecasts are now considered a target that must be met.
Which is obviously why as well, you know, while they have certain targets, it varies from year to year.
And, you know, it's at one point, I think after COVID, it peaked at like 500,000 or something like that.
So, yeah, it's not something that the government necessarily, despite what you may think, the government doesn't necessarily, while they have a target, it's not exactly something traditionally that's been, you know, enforced, so to speak.
I was weighing up between going with victim or target, but this, this week's, uh, topic of discussion is, uh, the one, uh, Tonathan Burke, um, who gave a speech at the, uh, the press club today, unveiling like Pauline Hanson, whipping off a burqa in parliament, unveiling his absolute turd of a policy, uh, to reduce the migration targets.
You might be wondering, is there some sort of problem that this policy is aiming to solve? Well, in a way, it's a political problem that they're trying to solve with this policy, and that is the rise of One Nation.
Is there an economic reason? Is there any other justification for reducing migration in this matter? And agreeing with One Nation's framing that migration is to blame for the housing crisis? No, that...
you are, you could argue that a political attack from One Nation and them seizing power as a result would be bad economically.
Second or third order effects, I believe, is what that's referred to in the lecture chart.
So, Labor is tightening its visa rules for international students and backpackers while increasing efforts to remove overstayers as it seeks greater control over migration.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said housing pressures mean net overseas migration forecasts are now considered a target that must be met.
Which is obviously why as well, you know, while they have certain targets, it varies from year to year.
And, you know, it's at one point, I think after COVID, it peaked at like 500,000 or something like that.
So, yeah, it's not something that the government necessarily, despite what you may think, the government doesn't necessarily, while they have a target, it's not exactly something traditionally that's been, you know, enforced, so to speak.
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