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Pauline Hanson’s immigration cuts will cost ‘many billions of dollars’ to implement, former top official says

Former department deputy says One Nation’s hardline approach would require huge funding for enforcement, legal costs and detention centres Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Enforcement of Pauline Hanson’s hardline immigration cuts would cost “many, many billions of dollars” and require widespread compliance checks across aged care facilities and some of the country’s…

Pauline Hanson’s immigration cuts will cost ‘many billions of dollars’ to implement, former top official says

Pauline Hanson faced widespread condemnation over her derogatory comments about Australia's Indigenous people, described as "the most primitive race on earth" and claiming that they had achieved nothing in the country's 60,000-year history. The comments, made on a conservative podcast, reignited a controversy that recently surfaced where Hanson criticized Anthony Albanese's late mother for living too long in public housing.

Hanson's remarks about Indigenous people were deemed "totally outrageous, completely racist, and divisive" by Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy. The Senate previously censured Hanson for wearing a burqa in parliament and questioning whether there were good Muslims.

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