The invisible migrants are changing Australian work

The invisible migrants are changing Australian work

By TheNewDailyAU
Publication Date: 2026-05-10 12:20:00

Pauline Hanson has been warning for thirty years that foreign workers are threatening Australian jobs.

She now leads a party poll at historic highs, with One Nation hitting 25 per cent in the latest Essential poll. So where is their policy towards the largest foreign workforce ever to enter the Australian economy – AI immigrants?

Four days before Christmas, Katherine, a 24-year-old medical receptionist at a clinic in Sydney’s inner west, was called into a meeting with three colleagues.

Management told them that phones would now be routed to a “natural computer AI.” Emails would be filed automatically. Patients would receive a general computer-generated response.

When their six-month probationary period was almost up, the four young women were fired and, making the displacement even worse, asked to help configure the systems that would replace them.

Katherine then called her father. He works in technology, runs IT for an insurance fund and was angry. Their younger colleagues had never been fired before. She…