{"id":686317,"date":"2026-05-22T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686317\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:32:08","slug":"australia-news-live-is-linked-families-leave-syria-for-australia-iran-war-and-inflation-hit-jobs-market-as-unemployment-surges-australians-released-from-israeli-prison-allege-mistreatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686317\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: IS-linked families leave Syria for Australia; Iran war and inflation hit jobs market as unemployment surges; Australians released from Israeli prison allege mistreatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals leader Matt Canavan has said he doesn\u2019t agree with <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/price-agrees-with-controversial-podcaster-on-migrants-flooding-from-asia-and-africa-20260521-p5zzgp.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">podcast host Sam Bamford\u2019s views<\/a> but said \u201cgood on\u201d him for expressing them, after Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price appeared on his 2 Worlds Collide podcast where he said the country was being flooded with \u201chundreds of thousands of Indians, Chinese, Africans, Middle Easterns, and Gazans\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sick of this faux outrage that we see from time to time. I mean, I think the people are sick of it. Maybe the Labor Party should focus on getting its tax policies and budgets right, and stop watching Sam Bamford, Sam Bamford on 2 Worlds Collide,\u201d Canavan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been on that podcast, I don\u2019t agree with everything Sam says, but he\u2019s a good Australian, he\u2019s served our country in war, he\u2019s entitled to his views,\u201d he told Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast featuring Price as guest, 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<p>\u201cJust because you go on someone\u2019s podcast doesn\u2019t mean you agree with everything they have to say, but we should have Australian politicians who are fearless to go on such new media. It is new media, it\u2019s a new world,\u201d Canavan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood on people like Sam for expressing the views that he has, and he\u2019s got lots of followers, he\u2019s very, very popular. So, why doesn\u2019t the Labor Party go on Sam\u2019s podcast and tell him where he\u2019s all wrong. You know, I think people would watch that, so don\u2019t be afraid, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationals leader Matt Canavan has said he doesn\u2019t agree with podcast host Sam Bamford\u2019s views but said \u201cgood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-686317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}