Tourists to Australia would have social media accounts vetted under Trumpian Coalition plan

Angus Taylor will use a speech at the Menzies Institute to pledge new funding to track down, arrest and deport non-citizens who have exhausted their legal appeals to stay in Australia. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

A Coalition government would end Australia’s non-discriminatory immigration program and introduce Trump-style social media vetting for visa applicants, as Angus Taylor accuses Labor of allowing migrants of “subversive intent” into the country.

As the opposition loses support to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Taylor says too many people seek to use Australia’s generosity “for self-serving purposes”, promising to speed up rejections of asylum seekers from countries deemed safe to return to.