Overview
- On Thursday Jacinta Nampijinpa Price appeared on the 2 Worlds Collide podcast where host Sam Bamford described migrants from India, China, Africa and the Middle East as 'flooding' Australia and Price gave an initial affirmative response before later saying she did not endorse every point.
- Price has issued a statement saying her short agreement referred to the length of the host's question and that her views are about newcomers adopting Australian values rather than race.
- Opposition leader Angus Taylor publicly accepted Price's clarification, reinforcing his stance that immigration policy should be based on values and signalling support for his push to link migration intake to housing completions.
- The podcast promoted extreme ideas including a 'remigration' concept and Bamford acknowledged he sounded 'heaps racist', which has drawn criticism from Labor and multicultural figures who say the language harms social cohesion and migrant safety.
- Price's appearance revives a recent controversy over her past comments about Indian migrants and highlights a Coalition fault line between MPs using tougher migration rhetoric to win back voters and colleagues warning the tone creates fear and division.