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Barnaby Joyce backflips on One Nation policy: ‘Not going to be kicking permanent residents out of their house’

Angus Taylor, has said he wants to restrict first home buyer concessions [and welfare payments to citizens only](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/14/angus-taylor-budget-reply-coalition-plan-index-tax-brackets-inflation-resource-windfalls-fund). Those policies have been [met with alarm by migration and advocacy groups](https://www.theguardian.com

‘Never, ever’: Tim Wilson walks back comments on potential One Nation rightwing alliance

Angus Taylor-led party will hold off threats on both its right and left flanks. On Sunday, Wilson raised the possibility of forming government with One Nation but on Monday he and other senior Liberal

Tony Abbott backs One Nation preference deal and says Liberals can’t just be a ‘little less woke than Labor’

Angus Taylor, all but confirmed he was open to such deals with [Pauline Hanson](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/pauline-hanson), declaring the party was prepared to cooperate with “whoever we can to get rid of this rotten Labor

Australia news live: Queensland Labor ahead in Stafford byelection despite large swing

comments on ABC’s Insiders, said Taylor’s proposed budget approach was “irresponsible”. > double quotation markLast time we cut income taxes, Angus Taylor voted against it and said he would repeal it. Chalmers continued: > double

Pressure mounts on Angus Taylor as Pauline Hanson declares One Nation ‘here for the long haul’

Angus Taylor’s leadership just three months into his tenure. The rightwing populist party won its first federal lower house seat on Saturday night, after [David Farley](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/09/farrer-byelection-results-one-nation-michelle-milthorpe-coalition) defeated the independent, Michelle Milthorpe

‘Vein of racism’: Race discrimination commissioner accuses One Nation and Coalition of scapegoating immigrants

Nation and the federal opposition are “dehumanising” and “scapegoating” immigrants while drawing on a “deep vein of racism”, Australia’s federal race discrimination commissioner says. [Giridharan Sivaraman](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/labor-accused-ignoring-anti-racism-plan-documents-reveal-repeated-pleas-take-action-ntwnfb) made the comments as part

Guardian Essential poll: more Australians approve of Hanson’s party leadership than Albanese or Taylor’s

Angus Taylor, as the Guardian Essential poll finds the rightwing populist party is outperforming the Coalition for the first time. The results come as Australians are becoming more pessimistic about the country and the economy

Australia news live: Albanese and Sultan of Brunei pledge energy cooperation; antisemitism royal commission to hold first public hearings in May

Angus Taylor needs to come out and actually give us a policy that states where does he want to stop people from coming? What does he want to do? Does he want to stop doctors

Andrew Hastie accuses Pauline Hanson of being ‘Maga first’ – as it happened

comments first made to the Nine newspapers, Hastie was critical of Hanson for not speaking more strongly against the effects of the US war on Iran, and how repercussions were being felt by Australians. Speaking

Hastie says falling house prices might not be ‘all that encouraging’ for recent buyers – as it happened

comment on the issue, including when contacted by Guardian Australia today. Roberts-Smith, a [Victoria](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victoria) Cross recipient, faces five charges of war crime murder over allegations he killed unarmed civilians during