One Nation eyes western Sydney after historic Farrer win | Sunrise

Pauline Hanson has fired a warning shot at Labor and the coalition vowing to come up to more seats after that historic win in the seat of Farrer.One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says the party is now eyeing the suburbs including Energy Minister Chris Bowen's electorate in Sydney's West.For their tag let's bring in Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek and Barnaby Joyce live in the studio this morning after a very big weekend.Good morning to both Barnaby.First of all, congratulations.It was a historic win.

Where does One Nation go now?

Well, I've got my happiness hat on, but I'm just going to put that down now that I've worn it for you.Well, where the Australian people decide to take it.I think what they've seen is that the polling is not an aberration.It's now been validated by both South Australia and FARA.There is a strong following out there.I've tried to encapsulate so many issues in one and it would possibly be this.

At the end of the Malaysian Peninsula is a little island.It has no coal, no oil, no gas, no cattle, no irrigation, no uranium, yet it's called Singapore.and has a GDP that is about a quarter to a third of the size of Australia.yet with all our resources, and has three different ethnic groups by the way, but with all our resources, we should be a superpower and we're not.We're languishing, we're going backwards, and people are incredibly frustrated with that.

Are you going after Bowen's seat?

We are very much in the mind for Western Suburbs Sydney.I was talking to people from the Western Suburbs of Sydney last night, both on the ground, to be quite frank I was even talking to potential candidates.People are very enthusiastic, they get the idea that When you have record insolvencies in small business, when you have a government that's just incapable of understanding that people are over climate change policy, they're over the climate change department, they're over their power bills, they're over Australia having so much potential but seem to lack putting it on the paddock, they're over being dominated by teal views andsort of progressive left views.They know we have a huge potential as a nation and they want to be part of that potential, not part of this butterfly chasing exercise.

Who are the candidates putting up their hands?

I won't go through that.

What types of people are you talking about?Where from?

People who would probably be first generation, second generation Australians.

Tanya, we have a respected pollster this morning saying One Nation is poised to clean up everything in regional NSW in the next federal election.How worried is the government?

Well, certainly this has been a disaster for the Coalition.It's a very strong repudiation of the Liberal and National parties.And we need to listen to what people are saying as well, and we do.I mean, we'll see another tax cut for working people on the 1st of July.We support higher wages and better services.I think this is really a time for people to start to look at what One Nation does compared to what they say.

They're pretty good at having a whinge and identifying problems.They're not so great at finding solutions.So this is the one nation that voted against higher wages and better conditions for working Australians.They say that they're for the ordinary person, but they vote against higher wages and better conditions.They vote against cheaper childcare.They vote against fee -free TAFE.

They vote against energy bill relief.They vote against all of the things that make life easier They vote against all the things that make life easier.So look at their record.That's what I'm saying to the Australian voters.Look at their record.I listen to you, Barnaby.

Tanya, is this a snapshot of Australia in Farrah over the weekend?The big talking points for them were ban net zero, immigration is too high, we don't have enough houses for our population.How much is your government sitting there and thinking, This is a lie.They're talking about us too, not just the Coalition.

Certainly I think it's important to listen to what all Australians are telling us and yes they are telling us that housing affordability is a problem.That's why we are acting on housing affordability after 10 years of inaction from the Coalition Government where Barnaby Joyce was the Deputy Prime Minister and never did any of the things he now says are important.What about immigration?They're talking about Well, exactly.I mean, we inherited immigration settings that saw some of the highest numbers.We've brought them down.

We've halved immigration since we've been in government.Well, we have part of it.The numbers are there in the budget.Those numbers are coming down year after year.they're coming off the settings.The two highest years for immigration, nine million visas issued two years in a row when you were in government Barnaby and Peter Dutton was the immigration minister.

So we're changing the settings particularly around students for example we're making sure that the universities can't bring in more students than they've got accommodation for and we're making sure that those numbers meet Australians interests.We need to have some immigration.Barnaby knows that there are farmers who rely on those backpackers and other workers from the Pacific to come and, you know, pick crops every time that they need help with their crops.I don't think Barnaby's saying that he's going to stop that.I'm not saying anything at the moment.

Okay, Barnaby, let's respond.First of all, immigration, it seems like almost the biggest issue in Australia.in the electorate of Faroe.

And people, Australian people, who can't get a house.And I sort of repudiate what Tanya said.We've had massive immigration, over 400 ,000 people a year coming in under Labor, which is a population of Canberra, without them having built the houses, without them having built the schools.If you wait forever in an emergency department at a hospital, it's because we've got too many people and not enough capital infrastructure to deal with them.They had thepathology against building dams and to build the vital infrastructure if you're moving towards AI and moving towards data centres you need the water infrastructure.

They've just closed down building the inland rail so they've closed down the freight rail but they are going to build a fast train apparently from Newcastle to Sydney which will eat its head off.And what's your immigration number?

Is that permanent migration?

That's net.So what you have to do, what you have to do is take a stock tape before that.We focus on the numbers but we should be focusing also on can you absorb these people.If you can't absorb these people, then if you cannot have the houses for them, if you don't have the dams for them, if you don't have the schools for them and you're going to put them in the western suburbs of Sydney, then get ready to just be parked on your road.Do you believe that?that's happening.

Do you believe you have houses that you are able to...Every day I get in the traffic in Sydney is a pretty good example.Every young couple who can't buy a house is a pretty good example.I think we've got some incredibly good examples.

OK, thanks Barnaby.

OK, Tanya, can you respond to that?Let's talk about immigration because it is one of the issues that people are very concerned about.

You seem very worried, Tanya.

Hang on a second, Barnaby.Hang on a second, Barnaby.Let's just go to Tanya on immigration.

Absolutely.And that's why, Nat, we've got a responsible immigration policy that's bringing down those numbers year on year.And just listen to Bhanu.He talks about dams.This is the best example of the difference between what he says and what he does.He promised 100 dams last time he was in government.

He promised 100.He built two.

And they were small ones.No, no, no.See, you're wrong there.Promised 100, built two.I can go through the ones I've done, and then I want you to list the ones you've done, Tanya.The upgrade of Kulpolli Dam, the upgrade of Chaffey Dam, Charleston Dam in Georgetown, just to name a few.

The upgrade of water infrastructure, even so much in my electorate.Tanya, please tell me the one dam you've even thought about starting, because I can tell you the ones you've stopped.You've stopped Hell's Gate, you've stopped Urana, you've stopped the Bowen Pipeline, you've stopped Inyuswamp, you've stopped done gown dam upgrade, you stop the inland rail, you have a vision for climate change, you have a vision for windmills, you have a vision for solar panels, you have a vision for transmission lines, and you have an outcome of the dearest power.

And so have Australians.Australians have got 4 million homes with solar panels on their roof and 300 ,000 people with batteries because they've worked out solar's cheaper.

And you still haven't learned that.

Just before we go, Barnaby, thank you.