Pauline Hanson has called for a ban on foreigners buying Aussie homes.
Claiming that every purchase of a home or piece of land represents Australians being denied ownership, the One Nation leader wants Labor to crack down on the practice.
“Foreigners who aren’t Australian citizens shouldn’t own Australian homes,” she wrote on X.
Senator Hanson has called for the policy shift for years, insisting that the rules governing foreign investment are selectively enforced.
“We’re often told that foreigners own barely 1 per cent of private residential property in Australia,” she told Parliament.
“The implication is that it’s not a problem, but, in real numbers, it’s estimated there are more than 108,000 dwellings in Australia that aren’t owned by Australians.
“For years it’s been One Nation policy to permanently ban foreign ownership of residential property. We must stop foreign ownership of housing indefinitely and give foreign owners two years to sell up so we don’t suddenly flood the market.
“If the property is not sold, it should be repossessed by the federal government. We must put Australia and Australians first.”
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Currently, people deemed “foreign persons” are banned from purchasing “established dwellings” in the country, according to the Australian Taxation Office.
China owns majority of foreign owned homes
It recently emerged that Chinese nationals own 67 per cent of the more than 40,000 Australian residential properties registered as foreign owned.
The ATO data shows mainland Chinese investors account for 23,500 of the total — and more than 27,000 when combined with Hong Kong.
Labor recently announced it will impose a two-year ban on foreign investors purchasing existing Australian homes.
Crackdown on migration
Liberal leader Angus Taylor vowed this week to deport 65,000 visa overstayers in a major speech, warning that overseas students and asylum seekers are exploiting the system.
Promising a hard line crackdown that echoes the Trump administration’s approach to illegal migration, the Liberal leader has warned that migration is also driving up property prices.
“Our immigration system is being exploited by people using the false pretext of needing protection or study to stay here for economic reasons. The Coalition will crack down on overstayers,” Mr Taylor told news.com.au.
“Some 65,000 people remain here despite having their student or protection visas cancelled and having exhausted all avenues for appeal.”
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Based on recent population data, deporting 65,000 people would be akin to removing the entire population of Tweed Heads (NSW), or Rockhampton (QLD), or Coffs Harbour (NSW) or Bunbury in WA.
“It’s time to take back control from the technocrats, bureaucrats and activists,” Mr Taylor said.
Mr Taylor said that if the Coalition is elected it will also stop non-citizens from accessing and using taxpayer funded legal aid to appeal a visa cancellation.
Trump-style ICE agents
Speaking on 2GB radio, Mr Taylor was asked if he would consider a new task force resembling the ICE agents currently operating in the United States.
“You know, like a team, with vans and armed police and all that sort of thing. Is that the sort of thing you look at?,” host James Willis asked.
“Well, we’re talking about a very different thing here. They’re talking well over 10 million people,” Mr Taylor said.
“We’re talking about 65,000. So, I don’t. We’re not, we’re not even remotely close to that sort of scale.
“But, it is absolutely right that if someone has exhausted all legal avenues for protection, that they’ve lost their visa, that they’re no longer a legal resident in this country, they should go.
“And we should enforce that and we should use whatever we have to, resources we have to, to make sure they leave the country.”
Liberals’ pledge singles out Gaza migration
Mr Taylor singled out Palestinian refugees from Gaza, saying they represent a clear risk to national security in an extraordinary speech that pledges to “shut the door” on unauthorised migration.
One of his proposals is to introduce a “safe country” list that will effectively ban asylum claims from some regions if he is elected at the next election.
Another is to demand new rules about migrants signing on to “Aussie values” including gender equality between men and women.
“For too long, we’ve turned a blind eye to a reality of immigration and integration: Those who migrate from liberal democracies have a greater likelihood of subscribing to Australian values compared to those migrating from places ruled by fundamentalists, extremists, and dictators,” Mr Taylor said.
“They come to our country from a society run by the barbaric Islamist terrorist organisation Hamas – an organisation that has sought to indoctrinate and radicalise their entire population to accept fanatical violence as normal, especially the genocidal slaughter of Jews.”
Around 1500 Palestinians from Gaza have arrived in Australia since the October 7, 2023 attacks, with over 2,500 to 3,000 visitor visas granted to Palestinians during the same period.
