WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Labor has been bringing in more than 1375 people per day for the past three years.
OUR VERDICT
False. Daily net migration over the past three years has averaged less than 1375, which appears to be an estimate of population growth, including births.
AAP FACTCHECK - Pauline Hanson is falsely claiming Labor has been "bringing in" more than 1375 people per day for the past three years.
This is false. The average daily Net Overseas Migration (NOM) figure over the past three years is 1122 and includes a spike in rates after borders reopened following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senator Hanson's figure appears to be an estimate of total population growth for the four years to June 2026, which includes both migration and natural increase from births.
Senator Hanson made the false claim during a National Press Club (NPC) speech on June 17, 2026.
"Labor has been bringing more than 1375 people per day for the past three years," she said (timestamp 10 minutes 18 seconds).
Senator Hanson made a similar claim during a 2GB radio interview on June 16, 2026, saying, "You can't keep going the mass migration, which is 1375 a day, on average" (timestamp 16:20).
One Nation's Instagram account also cited the figure, sourcing it to The Australian.
AAP FactCheck asked the Senator's office for evidence, but did not receive a response.
The 1375 figure appears to come from a report in The Australian that measured total population growth since 2022, including net migration and natural increase from births. The newspaper cited an analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data.
One Nation posted a graphic from The Australian article on Instagram on June 9, 2026, which clearly splits the figures into "natural increase" and "migration increase".
"Under Albo, the population of Australia has increased by 1,375 people per day," the post reads. "Of this, 1,091 is net overseas migration."
Natural increase refers to the rise in population due to births minus deaths.
The Australian's analysis covers May 2022 to June 2026, which is a year longer than the three-year period cited by Senator Hanson.
At the time The Australian article was published, the ABS had released actual population figures up to September 2025.
The ABS also publishes a population clock that provides a rolling estimate of Australia's current population, based on projections of NOM and natural increase.
The Australian reported that daily net migration between June 2022 and June 2026 was 1091, while the average daily population growth was 1375 when natural increase was factored in.
When Senator Hanson made the claim, the latest NOM data was for September 2025.
Based on those figures, NOM increased at an average daily rate of 1122 over the three years to September 2025, which is 253 people per day less than claimed.
The figure is calculated by dividing the total net migration during this period (1.23 million) by the number of days in those three years (1096).
This period includes a sharp spike in migration rates following the pandemic.
Figures to December 2025 have since been released and show NOM averaged 825 per day during the 2025 calendar year, or 1060 a day over the previous three years.
Migration experts previously told AAP FactCheck it can be misleading to cite immigration rates from 2022 onwards while omitting the two years before that when borders were closed during the pandemic.
International migration largely ground to a halt from 2020, and experts have pointed out that when borders reopened, arrivals surged as people whose travel, study and work plans had been delayed were finally able to come to Australia.
At the same time, some temporary visa holders already in the country were granted extensions, reducing departures and further boosting net migration figures.
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