Nationals leader Matt Canavan told a crowd outside Parliament House that the country has spent too much time nattering about diversity and not enough on being one big, happy, not-very-diverse family. Speaking at an anti-immigration rally before One Nation's Pauline Hanson - whom he previously condemned for comments about Muslim Australians - Canavan declared Australia needed "better standards" on migration, a tune his Liberal colleague Angus Taylor has also been humming.
"We've just had a little bit too much talk of diversity," Canavan said. "We're all different … And that's great, but we now just talk all about that and we don't talk enough about unifying, about [how] we're one nation." He added: "We're going to check who's coming. This country's going to have better standards, and we're going to bring the numbers down. And yes, if you don't share our values, you're getting deported."
Earlier, Taylor declined to criticise Hanson's migration stance, noting "some things we might agree on," and confirmed the Coalition would preference One Nation in the Farrer byelection to stop "teal policies."
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