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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price told a podcaster she agreed that the country should stop being flooded with \u201chundreds of thousands of Indians, Chinese, Africans, Middle Easterns, and Gazans\u201d, but said Australians could not be defined based on their ethnic background.<\/p>\n The senator appeared in an hour-long interview on the 2 Worlds Collide podcast, published on Thursday, which is hosted by combat veteran Sam Bamford and regularly features outspoken or right-wing guests.<\/p>\n Bamford raised the idea of a remigration program \u2013 an extremist concept for deporting non-white migrants \u2013 and later admitted he sounded \u201cheaps racist\u201d as he pushed Price on his complaints that people with Anglo-Celtic and European backgrounds were losing majority status in Australia.<\/p>\n Her appearance on the podcast indicates how Angus Taylor\u2019s Coalition leadership is emboldening his MPs to re-engage with sensitive cultural debates on migration despite the backlash it might provoke particularly in multicultural communities.<\/p>\n The NT senator, currently opposition spokeswomen for skills and training, disagreed that Australians could be defined by their ethnic heritage, given many people had mixed backgrounds.<\/p>\n But she did not push back on Bamford\u2019s complaints about an \u201cinflux\u201d of migrant groups from India, the Middle East or Africa. She instead insisted upon the importance of Australian values, while conceding that \u201cmass\u201d migration was dampening Australia\u2019s sense of community as people lived in enclaves.<\/p>\n The line of questioning revealed the tightrope that the Coalition is walking as it seeks to woo back voters from One Nation by muscling up to the minor party in its language on immigration and cultural values.<\/p>\n Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson on Wednesday refused to join Taylor and other colleagues, including Price, in using the term \u201cmass migration\u201d to describe immigration levels that surged after the pandemic and have plateaued above the average intake last decade.<\/p>\n Taylor started deploying the phrase, used often in right-wing circles, two weeks ago, on the night the Liberals lost the seat of Farrer to One Nation<\/a>. Last Thursday, he delivered a budget reply speech that promised to tie migration to housing completions, and bar non-citizens from welfare programs.<\/p>\n Multicultural leaders said the plan was making immigrants feel less safe and damaging social cohesion.<\/p>\n Related Article In Thursday\u2019s podcast, Bamford described changing demographics in Australia and referenced the controversial idea of a \u201cremigrating program\u201d.<\/p>\n He told Price: \u201cI\u2019m not coming in here and saying I want to deport every single person that isn\u2019t the make-up of you and I, that built this nation.<\/p>\n \u201cBut our government isn\u2019t having the discussion of \u2018Australia is for Australians\u2019. We can\u2019t keep flooding us with hundreds of thousands of Indians, Chinese, Africans, Middle Easterns, and Gazans, for that matter, with the refugee status. It\u2019s like, we got to stop this, guys,\u201d he said to Price.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat\u2019s your thoughts on all that?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLook, absolutely. And I totally agree,\u201d Price replied. \u201cI mean, if people want to come to Australia and become Australians, they have to adopt our values. Full stop. There\u2019s no two ways about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Further into the Thursday\u2019s interview, however, Price rejected Bamford\u2019s question about whether Australians could be defined by their ethnicity. \u201cThere\u2019s just heaps of Indians, there\u2019s heaps of Africans, there\u2019s heaps of Middle Easterns and we never had that influx before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then what is an Australian? I think it\u2019s an Anglo-Celtic, European or First Nation[s] person. That\u2019s what I think.\u201d<\/p>\n Price said: \u201cSure. Look, I will say that I don\u2019t know that you can define it precisely ethnic, ethnically, like that, because I think we\u2019re far more mixed up than that.<\/p>\n \u201cI look at my own family in that my children have got, you know, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, Indian, Malay, Chinese, French, you know, they\u2019ve got a grandmother on one side who\u2019s Mauritian to white Australian grandfathers and an Aboriginal grandmother.<\/p>\n \u201cFundamentally it comes down to our values \u2026 Our culture as Australians has always been about: I\u2019ll stick by you. I\u2019ll be your mate if you are going to stick by me, and be my mate, and we do the right thing by one another.\u201d<\/p>\n Price told the podcaster that she thought he was reflecting a feeling that there used to be \u201cfar more sense of community and that has broken down\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd this is what happens when you import people en masse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are right, when you bring a hell of a lot more people in here than we can handle, then yeah \u2013 I don\u2019t necessarily like the idea that community groups kind of have their own little enclaves, because I suppose it\u2019s not what I grew up with in Australia.<\/p>\n Related Article \u201cI grew up with us all being part of one another\u2019s lives, you know, regardless of ethnicity \u2026 I think it\u2019s about striking that balance and getting that back ultimately.\u201d <\/p>\n Price was pushed off the frontbench by former opposition leader Sussan Ley last year after suggesting in an ABC interview that Indian migrants were being brought into the country to win votes.<\/p>\n After being reinstated under Taylor, Price declared \u201cI\u2019m back, baby\u201d and said she was thrown under the bus by colleagues over the saga, for which she refused to apologise.<\/p>\n Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. 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