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Angus Taylor says higher risk of ‘bad people coming from bad countries’ as he singles out Iran
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Angus Taylor says higher risk of ‘bad people coming from bad countries’ as he singles out Iran

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The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has said “there is a higher risk that some bad people come from those bad countries”, doubling down on his immigration policy and refusing to call out Pauline Hanson’s hardline stance. Speaking to the ABC’s Insiders program on Sunday, Taylor also defended preferencing One Nation above the independent community candidate, Michelle Milthorpe, in the upcoming Farrer byelection, arguing the teals “vote with the Greens”. Since being elected the Liberal leader, Taylor has singled out migrants from countries “ruled by fundamentalists, extremists and dictators” as being less likely to “subscribe” to liberal democratic values. On Sunday, when asked whether migrants from China or Vietnam were less likely to fit in than migrants from Britain, he went further, specifically labelling some nations as “bad countries”. “Many good people come from bad countries. Some of the great Australians have come from countries that were bad countries at the time,” Taylor said.…

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