One Nation’s immigration policy is clear as mud – but that ambiguity could be a secret weapon for Pauline Hanson

The party’s key figures are either unable or unwilling to neatly articulate their migration targets, contradicting one another – and themselves Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One Nation has experienced a swell in popular support in the past year, and has primarily done so off the back of tough talk on immigration – a policy area almost synonymous with its leader, Pauline Hanson. But a series of blunders this week show a party unable, or unwilling, to clearly articulate what it would actually do about immigration levels. Does it want “net zero” immigration, as it boasted for many years? Or does it want a small increase – a net gain of up to 130, 000 people per year – as Barnaby Joyce said emphatically this week? Let’s step through what key figures have said – and what the party’s policy says. Officially, the policy listed on the party’s website is a promise to cap visas at 130,000 per year. Whether that would mean a net overseas migration (Nom) target or a permanent visa ceiling is unclear. Joyce has said this is the party’s Nom cap. On Thursday, Hanson reiterated this. Nom is