‘Won’t happen’: One Nation Victoria leader’s comments raise questions about Hanson’s mass deportations policy

Warren Pickering, One Nation's newly unveiled Victorian leader for Victoria's November state election, previously told podcast interviews that mass deportations in Australia are 'not a reality' and 'won't happen'—comments that stand in tension with Pauline Hanson's stated policy to deport seventy-five thousand people she says overstayed visas, The Guardian reports. In those same niche podcast interviews, Pickering also acknowledged the party ran 'ghost candidates' who didn't actively campaign but were deployed to harvest additional Senate votes.

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