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Australian deputy leader Barnaby Joyce has defended a One Nation claim that net overseas migration should be cut to one hundred thirty thousand people without counting short-stay visas. As The Guardian reports, Joyce argued that categories like the Palm scheme aren't included in that net migration count because those visa holders typically stay around nine months rather than the twelve required to register. He illustrated the point with a livestock analogy, comparing it to tallying sheep separately from cattle — different categories, he said, but neither one disappears from the count.

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