The NSW Libs were starting to feel better about themselves. Then Farrer happened |
The NSW Libs were starting to feel better about themselves. Then Farrer happened
May 14, 2026 — 5:00am
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During a post-budget press conference on Wednesday, NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane was asked whether she believed Australia’s migration intake was too high.
“Yes, they are too high,” she said after a bit of back and forth. “They’ve been too high for too long. Two million on Albo’s watch is too much, when it can’t keep up with infrastructure.”
When she declined to nominate her own migration target – “well, let’s start with the prime minister’s own targets, which he can’t seem to meet” – she was asked about One Nation’s stated plan to slash net overseas immigration to a rate of 130,000 a year.
“I’m not going to get into their policies,” Sloane said. “We need sustainable migration. It has to be fair and workable.”
Sloane is an effective communicator, and comes across as quite likeable in interviews, but she is talking about the wrong things. In fact, if you were a casual observer of politics in NSW, you’d be forgiven for thinking that immigration and One Nation are all Sloane talks about. In an interview with ABC Sydney on Tuesday, the questions were all along the same lines.
The Liberals had been given “a kick up the backside” in the byelection for the federal seat of Farrer on the weekend. Yes, immigration was too high “because we haven’t been able to keep up........