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Live: One Nation defends migration policy blunder

One Nation is mopping up after Farrer MP David Farley got the details of the party's immigration policy wrong on Insiders. Choose what information you see below by using filters The government expects to settle new rules for how data centres use energy in Australia at Wednesday's national cabinet meeting, despite Queensland confirming it will […]

By deepak · August 23, 2026 · 2 min read

One Nation is mopping up after Farrer MP David Farley got the details of the party's immigration policy wrong on Insiders.

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The government expects to settle new rules for how data centres use energy in Australia at Wednesday's national cabinet meeting, despite Queensland confirming it will remain opposed to the plan.

There are more questions than answers on immigration this week.

Liberal senator Jonno Duniam, who is leading the internal process for the Coalition's immigration policy, does not have an answer for when the public will get to see it.

"I'm not going to put a date on it," he says.

"We are in 2026, and the world in 2028, which is the first opportunity the Coalition will have at the election to form government if we win, so we need to make sure we are as relevant to that point in time as possible."

Don't expect the policy this year, he says, but maybe a "short time after that".

We're back talking about lobbyists at Parliament House.

Conroy insists the government has strict codes of conduct that guide its interactions with the lobbying industry, including the defence industry (his portfolio).

He says it would be unfair to exclude former defence ministers and Australian Defence Force officers who still want to contribute to policy debate.

"They obviously want to keep making a contribution to public policy, and that is their right," he says.

"I don't think people should be excluded from working in the Australian defence industry automatically, just because they happened to be a defence minister."

Labor frontbencher Pat Conroy says the federal government is working to find the "right" answer for its migration policy rather than a fast answer.

Treasury has forecast a NOM of 225,000 in the financial year after this one, but Conroy won't say if that is in line with the government's own targets.

Source: Read the original article on www.abc.net.au