Labor has delivered a fierce rebuke of Pauline Hanson’s proposed immigration overhaul, warning the plan would leave vital industries “decimated”.

Hanson on Monday outlined One Nation’s sweeping proposal to reduce Australia’s temporary migrant population by 750,000 across three years.

Under the proposed overhaul, net overseas migration would fall below zero for a three-year “reset”, before annual arrivals were capped at 130,000.

The policy would focus on Australia’s temporary migrant population, which has risen to about three million people.

It would limit international student visas to 100,000 annually, tighten routes to permanent residency, cut temporary graduate visas and strip skilled migrants’ families of access to secondary visas.

Speaking on ABC Radio National Breakfast, Labor frontbencher Murray Watt said the policy would severely damage industries reliant on migrant workers.

“I don’t know when Pauline Hanson or Barnaby Joyce last walked into an abattoir in regional Australia full of migrant workers, when they last walked into a hospital, an aged care facility,” he said.

“Those industries would be decimated if we don’t have some form of migration to Australia,” Watt said.

The idea has also alarmed farming groups, who argued the sector cannot function without migrant workers.

National Farmers’ Federation president Hamish McIntyre told Nine the cuts would have a ‘terrible impact’ on farmers and could drive up food prices.

McIntyre said one in seven farm workers was a working holiday maker, and warned growers could struggle to fill roles if migration numbers were slashed.

Business groups also quickly condemned the proposal.

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar said the group supported measures to bolster integrity in the system, but not drastic cuts aiming for an arbitrary target.

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‘The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry does not support wholesale cuts to Australia’s migration program to meet an arbitrary Net Overseas Migration number,’ McKellar said.

‘Major cuts that reduce skilled migration would damage our economy, hit the Budget and weaken our capacity to provide services for, and lift, living standards for Australians.’

He said businesses across multiple sectors continue to rely heavily on migrant labour.

‘Many Australian businesses would be put at risk by major cuts to the migration program. Pubs, cafes, hotels and accommodation providers desperately need chefs,’ McKellar added.

‘Aged care homes and hospitals are short of staff already. Farmers and resources sector businesses continue to face persistent workforce shortages.’

‘Housing projects are being held up, while others remain unviable because of lack of workforce and skills shortages.’

He argued that skills shortages, not migration levels, are holding the economy back.

‘The real constraints on Australia’s economy are skills shortages, over-regulation and high taxes. That is what is driving up prices and holding us back,’ he said.

The Coalition also questioned the viability of Hanson’s proposal, even as they argued migration levels remain too high under Labor.

Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie said One Nation had not explained the economic and social consequences of its plan.

‘What we don’t know about Pauline Hanson’s policy is the economic, the fiscal, and the human impact it will have,’ Hastie told the Today show.

‘She posted on Facebook, in the last hour, her policy, but we don’t know what the modelling or the costing is, and it’s up to her to come out and explain that to the Australian people.’

Hastie said the Coalition remains committed to reducing migration, but wants a more measured approach linked to housing supply.

‘We’ve said that we’re going to cut net overseas migration below the amount of houses that are built every year because housing is a massive issue,’ he said.

Sunrise presenter Nat Barr has confronted One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce over whether party leader Pauline Hanson should apologise for remarks involving Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s late mother.

Hanson has faced growing backlash after previous comments resurfaced about Albanese’s often-told account of being raised by his single mother, Maryanne, in public housing.

The One Nation leader questioned why Maryanne Albanese, who experienced significant health issues throughout much of her adult life, had stayed in public housing for so many years.

“Housing commission houses should not be there for people to live in them for 30, 40 years, and he said his mother lived in the same one she was born in for 65 years,” Hanson said during an appearance on The Karl Stefanovic Show in January.

“Sorry, that is not on, to me. It should be limited time; you have been given a hand up, move it on to the next ones coming through.”

During a tense Sunrise interview on Monday, Barr repeatedly pressed Joyce on whether Hanson owed the Prime Minister an apology.

“I don’t know the Prime Minister’s mother. I’m sure she’s a very, very good woman,” Joyce said initially.

“The circumstances of the Prime Minister’s mother are a story about her life.”

He then took a brutal swipe at Albanese over the number of properties he owned before standing by Hanson over her comments about people living in public housing for the long term.

‘The whole log cabin story of living in a housing commission home that the Prime Minister rolls out over and over again for a person who owns multiple houses. And good luck to him, and God bless him,’ Joyce continued.

‘He’s about to live in a $4.5 million house on the Central Coast. It just doesn’t wash.

‘We need public housing as a safety net. It shouldn’t be there sort of in continuum so that people just basically stay there forever because it makes it tougher for other people,’ he said.

Barr admitted he had a valid point before pressing him again.

‘But do you think Pauline should apologise in this case when basically the Prime Minister’s mother, who was an invalid for most of her life, is being questioned for living in public housing?’ she asked.

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Joyce replied: ‘I actually listened to it. She didn’t say that she was a bad woman or she that, you know, that she had done some form of theft or anything like that.

‘The question was put to her about public housing, and I stand by what she said.’

He was then asked a third time if Hanson should agologise.

‘That’s really a question for Pauline to answer,’ Joyce said.

‘I’m not going to start answering questions on anybody else in the parliament.

‘I’m going on what was said, which is whether you should be able to live in public housing for 65 years.’

Also appearing on the segment was Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek, who leapt to the defence of Albanese’s late mother before lashing out at Joyce.

‘I did know Maryanne. She was a gorgeous woman,’ she said.

‘She spent half a life in and out of hospital, and during that time, Anthony was either on his own or when she was home, he was caring for her.

‘He was doing everything for her.

‘Barnaby, when you were a kid, you were at a beautiful boarding school, getting three meals a day, being beautifully looked after. 

‘He (Albanese) was the carer in his family.’

With its rolling fields, thatched Tudor cottages, village pub and a church listed in the Domesday Book, Salford Priors appears to embody the traditional English village.

Yet residents in the scenic Warwickshire community, along with people living near the Worcestershire border, are protesting against proposals for what could be among the largest solar farms in the UK.

Opponents argue that the development would replace productive arable farmland with a “crystal desert”, leaving nearby communities affected by glint and glare while damaging natural habitats.

The planned Arrow Valley Solar project would cover four square miles, with solar panels and battery energy storage systems spread across four areas in Warwickshire and Worcestershire. The zones would be linked by a network of underground cables.

Its proposed capacity means it qualifies as a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP). The development could produce up to 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply around 235,000 homes each year.

If planning permission is approved, the site is expected to be operational by 2031. It would extend across 4,353 acres — the equivalent of 2,468 full-size football pitches — and include tracker panels as large as double-decker buses, designed to follow the sun’s path.

Paul Wareing, 68, said the solar farm would take in parts of the Vale of Evesham, an area famed for its rich soil and its importance to fruit and asparagus production, destroying what he described as “quintessential English countryside”.

The semi-retired former government project manager said: “People are only just waking up to the scale of this thing. It will destroy our green and pleasant land.”

Mr Wareing, who lives with wife Joanna, 69, in Salford Priors – a former Warwickshire village of the year winner – said that a field designated as housing battery units to store excess energy was the site of a wildfire which threatened the village last month.

‘If there had been batteries in-situ then there would have been hell to pay’, he added.

‘This scheme will turn a beautiful area into a giant industrial estate.

‘The irony is that I live in a conservation area and if I wanted to put solar panels on my roof I wouldn’t be allowed. Instead schemes like this are allowed to blight the countryside around us.’

Much of the land for the scheme will be provided by the nearby 6,000-acre Ragley Estate – which was at the centre of a bitter High Court family trust dispute last year.

David Smith, a retired electricity board worker from Abbots Morton, accused Henry Seymour, the 9th Marquess of Hertford who inherited the £85m ancestral estate in 1991, of ‘destroying this corner of Warwickshire’.

Mr Smith, 68, said: ‘How will he be remembered after this?

‘Landowners like the marquess are custodians, it is only his house for his duration.

‘A sizable percentage of this scheme will be on the estate’s land, but not one square inch of it will be visible from Ragley Hall.’

Mr Smith said the new solar scheme will result in panels positioned just yards from his home. The land, currently used to grow oil seed rape, would flood because underground drainage pipes would be ‘smashed’ by the framework for the solar panels, he feared.

But the landowner, who said he had agreed to lease 200 acres for at least 30 years as part of the development, said farming was becoming ‘unviable.’

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‘If the scheme gets the go-ahead there will be sheep on here – it’s going to be built so they can graze’, the farmer, who declined to be named, said.

‘I’m losing money growing crops’.

NSIPs require a specific type of planning permission called ‘development consent’, with the final decision resting with the Secretary of State.

A public consultation into the project opens at the end of this month.

Land earmarked for the scheme spans at least 11 parishes, with other villages and hamlets affected including Broome, Cleeve Prior and the hamlet of Weethley, where a stunning vista behind St James’s church is set to be decimated by solar panels.

Dr Jane Cornwall, a psychologist and church warden at St James’s, runs a mindfulness group from the building for people with anxiety and depression.

She said: ‘People come here to enjoy the unadulterated view, to walk and enjoy the peaceful tranquillity. I’m very concerned and the company behind this scheme have done nothing to allay people’s fears.’

But a villager in Dunnington who was in favour of the scheme, and green energy in general, said: ‘The panels near here won’t be visible from the houses and will mainly be on estate land which isn’t used for much at the moment.’

Arrow Valley Solar is one of slew of super-sized solar parks to enter the planning system over the last year. Earlier this year, the government approved what was up until then the UK’s largest power-producing solar farm, following a planning inquiry.

The 800MW Springwell Solar Farm, between Lincoln and Sleaford, will cover 3,163 acres and power 180,000 homes.

A decision on a proposed 4,361-acre ‘Great North Road’ solar park, which could generate enough electricity for 400,000 homes, beside the A1 in Nottinghamshire is expected next month.

Jamie Gleeson, Project Development Manager for Arrow Valley Solar, said the development would be ‘sympathetic to the local area’s environment, character and history’.

He added: ‘The project is being developed to help meet growing demand for secure, home-grown renewable energy and will be shaped by a comprehensive programme of environmental and technical assessments, alongside feedback from local communities and stakeholders.’

‘We recognise that people have questions about what the proposals could mean for the local area and would encourage anyone interested in the project to take part in our forthcoming public consultation’. 

Ragley Estate said it understood some residents had concerns over the scheme, ‘for which Ragley is one of a number of landowners that are involved.’

It said that, ahead of the consultation, the ‘Arrow Valley Solar project team are best placed to respond to any queries or concerns’. 

Last November, the Earl of Yarmouth, William Seymour, was saddled with a £1.3m legal bill after losing a battle over the running of the estate.

The earl, then 31, had been involved in a spat with his parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Hertford, since 2018 when they objected to his wedding to former Goldman Sachs banker Kelsey Wells – now Lady Yarmouth.

The High Court was told that as the oldest son, the earl expected to be handed Ragley Hall, the 340-year-old family seat, when he turned 30.

But he was disinherited by his father after they fell out around the time of the earl’s marriage.

Welcome to Polished with Elise Wilson, the column where Daily Mail’s qualified makeup artist and hair stylist answers your questions, shares expert advice and puts emerging beauty and skincare trends to the test, so you don’t have to.

For years, the beauty industry seemed to follow one straightforward philosophy: if an area was sagging, hollow or showing signs of age, add filler.

Now, however, the trend appears to be shifting. The ultra-plumped, flawlessly perfected faces once synonymous with the red carpet are increasingly being replaced by looks that are softer, brighter and, perhaps most importantly, more human.

Enter ‘The Great Deflate’ — the growing move away from conspicuous volume and overfilled features towards cosmetic treatments that look subtle, natural and almost impossible to detect.

Few stars seem to represent this evolving beauty ideal quite as well as our queen, Nicole Kidman.

As she promotes Practical Magic, the actress has been impossible to overlook — and she looks absolutely incredible.

Her features look elegantly defined, her complexion has a radiant glow and, compared with photographs from only a few years ago, there is a clear change in the overall look of her face.

I would never speculate on precisely what Nicole has or has not had done, but her refreshed look neatly reflects the subtle, natural-looking cosmetic treatment trend now gaining momentum across Hollywood.

Australian TikTok star Anna Paul is another high-profile example of the changing mood, famously documenting her decision to dissolve her lip filler in 2024, eight years after her first injections because she wanted to recognise herself in the mirror again. 

Then we had The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice following in her footsteps, documenting herself having her lip filler dissolved on TikTok in November 2024, echoing the same sentiment to followers that she wanted a ‘more natural look’.

Before anyone accuses me of jumping on the anti-filler bandwagon, I have to confess that I’m certainly no stranger to the syringe myself. In fact, I’m a tad guilty of overdoing it too.

Although I’ve since let mine naturally wear off, it was only a few years ago that I realised I’d probably gone a little too far (read: way too far) with the filler in my cheeks and jawline. At the time, I thought I looked amazing, but when I look back at photographs now, the telltale puffiness is glaringly obvious.

The truth is, filler ‘blindness’ can happen to any of us, including myself unfortunately. But in our defence, when we look at our own faces every day, our eyes gradually adjust and what once seemed like a noticeable change just becomes our new normal.

It can then be all too tempting to keep chasing more and more (the addicting to cosmetic procedures is real), convinced the filler you had months ago has disappeared when, in reality, plenty may still be there. 

That’s why I believe the person holding the syringe is every bit as important as what’s inside it.

A good, experienced cosmetic practitioner should know when to say enough is enough rather than agreeing to whatever you ask for, particularly when it comes to repeatedly injecting foreign substances into our faces. 

What is the Great Deflate?

Nina Johah, cosmetic registered nurse and owner of The Jection Bar in Sydney’s Maroubra, said it’s not just something she’s noticed scrolling through celebrity photographs.

She told me she’s witnessed a dramatic increase in clients wanting old filler dissolved and completely removed over the past 18 months.

What was once an occasional request has become almost weekly, and on particularly busy days she can dissolve filler in three or four clients with the most common areas the lips and tear troughs.

‘Clients are wanting more refinement, not so much the big volume anymore,’ Nina said.

Many are choosing to effectively ‘reset’ their faces before moving towards subtler, regenerative-style treatments.

How to know if you’ve gone too far

The tricky thing about filler is that we can become accustomed to seeing ourselves with it.

Nina explained that clients sometimes believe their filler has disappeared when, in reality, it’s still there. But because their appearance has become their ‘new norm’, they continue adding more.

Nina looks for a loss of natural contour, unusually round or projected cheeks, heaviness around the mouth, a pronounced step beneath the eyes and, of course, the infamous ‘pillow face’.

Filler can also migrate beyond the area in which it was originally placed, while some filler-tissue complexes can hold fluid and contribute to chronic puffiness.

In some cases, too much volume around the cheeks and under-eyes can even make the eyes themselves appear smaller.

Looking back at my own photographs now, I can absolutely recognise some of those signs in myself.

Facial filler is not the enemy

Despite the negative press surrounding filler recently, Nina doesn’t believe it’s disappearing altogether. Instead, she says that when used conservatively and appropriately, it can still be an incredibly useful aesthetic tool.

‘Filler has a place. It’s always going to have a place,’ she said.

The problem, she believes, is that for years it became the default solution for almost everything.

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Now, rather than trying to ‘fill’ ageing away, Nina is seeing more clients focus on collagen stimulation, skin quality, texture and treatments designed to work with the body’s own regenerative processes.

Think collagen biostimulators, microneedling, medical-grade chemical peels and injectable skin boosters designed to improve glow, firmness and texture.

‘Improve the fabric instead of just adding stuffing,’ she joked, and I couldn’t agree more.

Dissolving filler isn’t a ‘magic eraser’

Nina stressed that, like any cosmetic injectable procedure, dissolving carries risks and needs to be performed carefully by an appropriately qualified practitioner.

Allergic reactions are possible, although Nina says they’re rare, and her clinic performs a patch test to assess sensitivity before treatment.

The enzyme used to dissolve filler, hyaluronidase, doesn’t distinguish between the hyaluronic acid filler you no longer want and your body’s naturally occurring hyaluronic acid.

This means people can experience temporary hollowing, flatness, asymmetry, changes in skin texture or laxity after dissolving.

Then there’s what Nina calls the ‘deflated balloon illusion’, whereby if filler has been repeatedly placed in an area for years, it can expand the surrounding tissue.

Removing that volume too quickly can sometimes leave the face appearing flatter or more aged than expected.

For long-standing filler, Nina prefers a staged approach rather than attempting to dissolve everything aggressively in one appointment.

‘We’re modifying the filler tissue complex. We’re not wiping the slate perfectly clean.’

A holistic approach to depuffing

For some faces, carefully placed filler may still be exactly the right treatment, but for others, the best option might be to stop adding volume altogether and concentrate on the quality of the skin instead.

I’ve written before about my love of lymphatic massage, particularly when I’m feeling puffy, and Nina is also a fan, provided you’re realistic about what it can achieve.

The lymphatic system helps move excess fluid through the body and relies partly on movement and external pressure. Massage, exercise and even deep breathing can therefore help encourage fluid movement, which can temporarily reduce puffiness.

But it won’t dissolve migrated filler, replace lost facial structure or reverse ageing, and instead Nina described it perfectly as ‘facial housekeeping, not a renovation’.

Hormones play a big part in preserving beauty

For women approaching their 40s and beyond, Nina believes aesthetic medicine needs to look at far more than what’s happening on the surface of the face.

Estrogen is closely associated with collagen and skin health, and as hormone levels fluctuate during perimenopause and menopause, women can begin noticing significant changes in their skin.

Suddenly, the treatment that worked beautifully a few years ago might not seem to deliver the same result.

Nina says that women experiencing these changes should consider discussing their overall hormonal health with their GP or qualified women’s health specialist rather than assuming another syringe or aesthetic procedure is automatically the answer.

She has observed differences in the skin quality and treatment responses of women going through hormonal changes, but decisions around hormone testing or hormone replacement therapy are medical ones and should always be discussed with an appropriate doctor.

Nina also believes cookie-cutter filler, aggressive full-face packages and the pursuit of identical proportions are all on their way out.

In their place is something much more excited personalised, with treatment plans designed to make you look refreshed rather than ‘done’.

Disclaimer: 

The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely my own and do not reflect those of any brands, clinics or companies mentioned. This content is not sponsored or endorsed in any way. Cosmetic treatments and medical procedures carry potential risks and results vary between individuals. This article is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Always consult an appropriately qualified medical professional before undergoing any cosmetic or medical treatment.