Barnaby Joyce and One Nation colleague bungle details of key housing policy in ‘trainwreck’ interviews
By Josh Butler
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says blunder shows Pauline Hanson’s party is ‘literally making up policy as it goes along’
#OneNation #BarnabyJoyce #Housing #Australianpolitics #PaulineHanson #Australiancitizenship #Australianimmigrationandasylum #AndrewBolt #SkyNewsAustralia #Australianmedia #Australianews #Migration #JoshButler
#BarnabyJoyce and a #OneNation colleague have struggled to detail the party’s housing policy, with Joyce requesting a second TV appearance to do so and Senator #SeanBell being cut off during what a radio host described as a “trainwreck” interview.
Joyce told #SkyNews on Thursday that his party wanted to force permanent residents to sell their homes – before clarifying with colleagues and quickly returning to say that wasn’t One Nation policy.
The program’s host, #AndrewBolt, who interviewed Joyce on Thursday night, later told viewers the bungle demonstrated #PaulineHanson’s party was “literally making up policy as it goes along”.
Hanson herself intervened on Friday morning by saying One Nation’s policy would allow permanent residents to own homes but force “foreign owners” like temporary visa holders to sell properties within two years.
But even after Hanson’s clarification, Bell couldn’t explain the policy during a 2GB interview. Pressed repeatedly by host #MarkLevy on whether One Nation would dispossess non-residents of their homes if the property wasn’t sold, Bell said it was “an excellent question” but did not directly answer.
Levy cut Bell off, ending the interview and stating: “This is turning into a trainwreck.”
“You call back through when you get a definitive answer. I’m going to let you go and get some clarity before this gets worse for you,” Levy told the senator.
“You can’t come on the radio and say ‘we’re going to give people two years to divest their property’ and then not answer the question ‘what happens at the end of the two years if they don’t sell that property?’”
One Nation’s policy on “foreign ownership” on its website states: “We must stop the sale of property to non-residents and non-citizens.”
On Sky on Thursday night, Bolt played a clip of Hanson telling the Senate in 2024: “We must stop foreign ownership of housing indefinitely. Give foreign owners two years to sell up so we don’t suddenly flood the market. If not sold, the property will be repossessed by the federal government.”
In his pre-recorded interview, Bolt asked Joyce if the policy would require people who were permanent residents of Australia to sell their homes.
Joyce at first did not answer directly, stating: “You have to be an #Australian citizen if you want the benefits that are indelible about that.”
Bolt persisted, asking again: “Does it [house repossessions] apply to permanent residents as well?”
Joyce responded: “Yes, it does. That’s my belief in the policy. We want to make sure that you become a permanent resident … sorry, excuse me, become an Australian citizen. And that’s going to deal with the issue, isn’t it? Become an Australian citizen.”
After playing the pre-recorded interview, Bolt told viewers that after the recording, “something extraordinary happened”. He said Joyce had called “two people back at the office” to discuss One Nation’s housing policy.
“He must have figured, well, you know, he actually had no idea what Pauline Hanson’s policy in foreign ownership of homes really was, and must have realised this was going a bit harsh,” Bolt said.
“So, with our cameras still on him, he rang two people back at the office.” Bolt said Joyce received two different answers.
“Barnaby left the studio. Minutes later, he came back and said actually there was now a change of policy. Could he record a new answer? And I agreed,” the Sky host said.
Bolt then played a second clip in which Joyce said he wanted to provide “clarity”.
“This policy is formative,” Joyce said.
“But on further investigation and discussions with One Nation, no, we are not going to be kicking permanent residents out of their house.
“This policy, as it progresses on, we have to absolutely make certain that there’s no unnecessary fallout of it. The concept is quite clear, it’s that we want people to progress through to Australian citizenship. But that should not come at the expense of permanent residents being divested of their house. It was an issue that needed further clarity. I’ve got it. And that’s it.”
Bolt asked who would be subject to the policy of forced property sales, and Joyce replied: “Obviously, it applies to people who are foreign citizens who are basically not permanent residents. And there’s your line.”
Asked about Joyce’s interview, Liberal senator Jane Hume on Friday called it a “trainwreck”.
Hanson, in posts on social media, said Joyce had “corrected the record”, claiming “Australians would rather see politicians be upfront and do this instead of lying to avoid embarrassment”.
She said permanent residents would not be forced to sell their homes.
“Foreign owners – temporary visa holders and foreign citizens residing overseas – would be given two years to sell their Australian residential properties under One Nation’s policy,” she said.
“Permanent residents have been accepted to settle in Australia permanently. One Nation’s policy does not require them to sell their homes.”
The Coalition leader, Angus Taylor, has said he wants to restrict first home buyer concessions and welfare payments to citizens only. Those policies have been met with alarm by migration and advocacy groups.
One Nation declined to comment further when contacted by Guardian Australia. #auspol
Barnaby Joyce backflips on One Nation policy: ‘Not going to be kicking permanent residents out of their house’
By Josh Butler
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says MP ‘had no idea what Pauline Hanson’s policy was’ after politician said permanent residents could have homes ‘repossessed’
#OneNation #BarnabyJoyce #Housing #Australianpolitics #PaulineHanson #Australiancitizenship #Australianimmigrationandasylum #AndrewBolt #SkyNewsAustralia #Australianmedia #Australianews #Migration #JoshButler
#Murdoch, his media and his henchmen are all radical! 
#RoyalCommissionRupertMurdoch
#AusVotes25
#MurdochGutterMedia
#AndrewBolt
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has threatened to resign if James Murdoch takes over News Corp as reports arose of a legal battle between Rupert Murdoch and Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch against the media mogul’s three eldest children.
Andrew Bolt, Melbourne's very own far right newspaper bigot is too stupid to write a coherent article. First he maligns the far right as stupid, then calls a senior lawyer a QC.
This person is actually a KC, Kings Counsel, as a little known British aristocrat called Elizabeth Windsor died last year.
#AndrewBolt. As sharp as a soggy dishcloth.
A few things that can be true at the same time:
1. The High Court’s decision to quash George #Pell’s conviction for sex offences because there were grounds for reasonable doubt that he could have committed the offences was, in fact, correct;
2. George Pell did, in fact commit those offences;
3. George Pell could be a witty and amiable conversationalist in the company of his fellow conservatives;
4. George Pell could be actively, and viciously, hostile to Catholics - gay Catholics, for example - who challenged his doctrinaire interpretation of the Catholic faith;
5. George Pell was callously indifferent to the suffering that men like Gerald Ridsdale caused to their victims and the families of their victims: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/mar/01/george-pell-wasnt-much-interested-in-stories-of-abuse-by-priests-which-was-lucky-for-his-career
6. George Pell lied his arse off in his testimony to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/
7. George Pell’s “Melbourne Response” was designed to protect the assets & reputation of the Catholic Church in Australia, not help the victims of child sexual abuse.
Some things that will never be true:
1. George Pell was persecuted for his faith - George was a persecutor;
2. George Pell is a "saint of our times".
3. George Pell was "a man, flawed but holy, martyred by pagans to pay for their sins." (#AndrewBolt #Bolt)
The Guardian Feeds
Electric Trike
World news | The Guardian
Queen 1066
Tony 💉x11 🇦🇺
⌛️🧮 Bruce Carnwell (🐣 & 🌴)
ideogram
Paul Bamford
Michael Ryan