'I presume you're a bleeding heart leftie?': Bernardi hits back in immigration row

One Nation South Australia Candidate Cory Bernardi weighs in on recent comments made by One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce in which he compared immigration to “buying cattle”.

“Let me presume the context that is going to come out here; if, when you go to buy cattle, you choose the best cattle available to help your stocks and your herd, well, shouldn’t we be doing the same in our immigration policy?” Mr Bernardi said.

“We want the best and brightest to come here, rather than just the teeming hordes of people who come here for welfare.

“People of Australia are waking up to the fact that mass immigration has not worked to our economic, our social or our cultural advantage.”