Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Pauline Hanson's migration plan to stop nail technicians, dog walkers and Uber drivers

Pauline Hanson has a big plan for migration reform in Australia, and it's aimed at bringing down numbers and reducing certain sectors.

Hanson voiced concerns about the nation’s skilled migration scheme, and says Australia needs to cancel the pipeline of 'dog walkers, nail technicians and Uber drivers'.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says One Nation wants to cut migration back to 130,000 people a year - and it's a hot-button issue for Australian voters. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business. Mariol's ASA correspondents to that. Hey,
Mars Heather, A very good afternoon to you. All right,
So what's up with now technicians? Well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
See I don't have my nails done that often. In fact,
let me think never, I've never had my nails done.
So I'm bugget if I know what's wrong with nail technicians.
But we do need different sorts of nail technicians.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
And these are carpenters and builders and people with a
set of skills that the country can use. And that's
what Pauline Hansen is exploiting here. Divisions within labor. Tony Burke,
he's nickname these days is Tony Burker, thank you very much.
He's the labor left wing labor minister in charge of
Home Affairs, and he was due to stand up today

(00:47):
with the major speech on immigration, basically to try and
limit numbers. And now he has canceled what he canceled yesterday.
He canceled the Press Club appearance. Most are new. You
give politicians a microphone and some television cameras, you have to,
But he pulled them off the stage. So Burke has
he been muzzled? That's what Hanson says. He's frightened of

(01:09):
the Unions, he's frightened of Left. He's in his own party,
and he's scared of the Greens as well. So Hanson's
out there banging this drum. She might not have very
many policies, but this one is absolutely a weapon for her.
There are so many people out there who were stuck
in traffic jams this afternoon, Heather, who can't get an apartment,
they can't find a place to rent, and they're saying,

(01:29):
bugger this, We've got too many migrants coming here, particularly
when she says no nail technicians, bloody huber drivers at
dog walkers. We don't need those sorts of people. And
a lot of people are buying that. Of course they are,
because this is a hot button issue over here. And
Pauline Hanson is banging that drum Heather as hard as
she can listen. Where are we at with that toxic

(01:50):
fire at the port? Yeah? I knew you were going
to ask about this, so I just was on the
phone to Adelaide. Now without overegging the pod here, what
you've got is Adelaide's geography. You've got Port Adelaide is
out on the coast. Obviously, it is the port, and
that's where there major sulfur fire is burning. Is a big,
big warehouse full of sulfur caught fire this morning. Now

(02:12):
it's to the north of the airport. So the airport
Adelaide Airport, International domestic airport directly to the south wouldn't
be five kilometers in this fire. And Adelaide city itself,
the CBD is about six or seven kilometers to the southeast.
And which way is the wind blowing south to southeast.
So they've got this exclusion zone about one and a

(02:33):
half kilometers was the last thing I heard. One and
a half k's around this fire. Anyone living there, working there,
get out as quick as you can. That was the
order a few hours ago. And this one is a
pretty serious situation. How serious we're not sure yet. But
as I say, the smoke and you know, whatever toxic
stuff is burning them there is drifting south southeast. That's

(02:54):
where the city is.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Hey, Sir Marc Parson doesn't like his job, does he?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
No, he doesn't. And to be fair, if this is
the same Mark parton he was a journo one hundred
years ago over here and his nickname, of course, was Dolly.
And I had a look at his photograph. I lost
track of him. And if it's it looks like the
same guy. And it was the same guy. He's a
bit of a hard case. It was the same guy.
He used to work in newsrooms with me all those

(03:19):
years ago. And he doesn't like his job. But here's
the thing. He sent a text message while he was
in the house. He's an act parliamentarian and he said
in the text message, f dot dot dot, my job
is boring. Now. Who hasn't please hand on Hart. Is
there anyone listening to your program this afternoon who hasn't

(03:41):
sent a text message that if it was made public,
you'd be hideously embarrassed. Yeah, I know I might have
sent one or two. I don't think you probably have.
I guess the Pope hasn't. But be very few people
who haven't. We haven't said a text message. They thought, gee,
wish I hope that doesn't hope that doesn't get out.
And that's what's happened. It looks like anyway, he's not
going to be investigated. He says, there's someone down there

(04:04):
called the standards commissioner, whatever the hell that is. They
talk about being over governed over here. Well, I think
we can do without a few standards commissioners. But I
think maybe Pauline Hanson's on the money with them. Do hey,
why was his nickname Dolly? I can't imagine Mark Parton?
Oh hello, No, I no, it's like that, Thank you, Mars.

(04:28):
My brain's still on holiday, mate, Murray Old, Australia correspondent.
I went to some dark places before we got to
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