Dear All, When I talk to Australians around the country, one thing keeps coming up: Australians are paying the price for a system that’s out of control. Under Labor, we’re heading towards two million more people in Australia by the end of their term – without the housing, infrastructure or services to support it. You can see the impact everywhere. Long lines at rental inspections. Hospital wait times blowing out. Traffic getting worse. More pressure on schools and services. At the same time, young Australians are being locked out of home ownership. That’s why Australians are demanding an immigration reset. And that’s exactly what Angus Taylor set out this week. The message is simple: We need to put Australian values – and Australians – first. Economic benefits alone aren’t enough if Australians are being pushed backwards. The first part of our plan is about making alignment with Australian values a real requirement, not just a box to tick. It puts in place stronger powers to refuse visas and remove people who violate those values. It also means making sure taxpayer-funded support, like first home buyer schemes, is reserved for Australian citizens. There is more to come, including bringing numbers back to a sustainable level, but getting the fundamental values right matters. Labor has, of course, immediately attacked the plan, calling us racist and saying it will never work. Instead of addressing the pressure Australians are under, they’ve resorted to calling this policy racist and trying to shut down debate. Because the reality is simple: Australians support migration – but they expect it to be fair, controlled, and in the national interest. More importantly, it’s an effort to cover up their massive failure to protect our borders. Many Australians are, of course, themselves migrants. What they don’t support is a system that is out of balance, where population growth outpaces housing, infrastructure and services. That’s not compassion. That’s bad policy. That’s the irony in Labor’s attack on our policies: it’s Labor’s failure to manage the system that is driving concern in the community. If you don’t enforce standards, if you don’t manage numbers, and if you don’t put Australians first – you undermine confidence in the entire system. Living in Australia is a privilege and Australians expect our laws, our values and our way of life to be respected. Australians deserve a system that works for them – not against them. That’s what our plan is about. Restoring balance. Restoring fairness. And making sure immigration once again works in the interests of Australians. Time for REAL solutions. 
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Senator for the Northern Territory
Shadow Minister for Small Business
Shadow Minister for Skills and Training
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