One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been praised by voters after vowing to force some foreign home owners to sell their properties to Australians and refusing to apologise for the policy.
Ms Hanson announced on Friday morning in an X post that was met with overwhelming support from Aussies who are battling with mass immigration-driven housing and cost-of-living crises.
She accompanied the post with a clip from Sky News containing a statement from a party spokesperson saying “Australian homes should be prioritised for Australians”.
“One Nation makes no apologies for prioritising Australians first,” she wrote.
“If you are a temporary visa holder or a foreign citizen residing overseas, One Nation will give you two years to sell their property to an Australian.
“One Nation would remove the ability for international students, non-permanent residents, and non-Australian citizens from buying future property within Australia.”
Ms Hanson also defended MP Barnaby Joyce, who accidently misrepresented the policy on Sky News on Thursday night where he was attacked by political commentator Andrew Bolt.
NSW senator Sean Bell was also attacked by left-wing 2GB radio host Mark Levy over the policy, but everyday Australians have responded positively to the plan, with some saying it should go even further.
“Sounds fair to me. No different, in fact more lenient than the countries where all these people came from. I can confirm 100% that other countries like Indonesia and Singapore way stricter and fairer (to the citizens) when it comes around to foreign investment,” wrote one Aussie.
“Housing only for Australian citizens. We also need to make it a lot harder for future immigrants to get citizenship,” said another.
“You must extend this further… no government welfare or assistance (Medicare and NDIS etc) to non-citizens. Let’s nip it in the bud… this will stop people bleeding our taxpayers system that they have no legal right to,” said a third.
Successive recent polls show One Nation is seen as the party best placed to deal with the issue of immigration, and is now more popular than Labor on primary voter according to major surveys by Redbridge and YouGov last week.
