130,000 or 230,000? The migration figures One Nation is trying to explain

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has faced questions over his party's immigration target, claiming fellow MP David Farley misspoke when he revealed their figures were "not too different" from Labor's.

The MP for Farrer told ABC's Insiders program on Sunday that One Nation's stated figure of 130,000 net overseas migration annually into Australia did not include those who enter under a Pacific labour scheme, aged-care nurses, and other in-demand skilled workers.

He conceded that those groups would add roughly 100,000 people, bringing their total to 230,000 — 5,000 fewer than the current Labor budget projections.

Party leader Pauline Hanson intervened just hours later, writing on social media that One Nation's policy is to reduce net overseas migration (NOM) to 130,000.

Speaking to Channel Seven's Sunrise program on Monday, Joyce added that Farley simply made a mistake while explaining the numbers.

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"Show me a political career where people haven't made a mistake, and I'll show you a person who's not told the truth," Joyce said.

"I'm not going to throw anybody under a bus. When people are new in parliament, they can sometimes get things incorrect, and that's what happens. God knows, I've done it enough."

The debate over Australia's migration figures has intensified in recent months, with a recent Redbridge/Accent Research poll, conducted for the Australian Financial Review, indicating that voters trust One Nation and its traditionally restrictive approach to handle migration better than Labor or the Liberal Party.

However, the disjointed nature of One Nation's ongoing public discourse on the topic has prompted claims that the party is "incoherent" and "not fit to govern" from federal minister Pat Conroy.

Since its 1997 inception, cutting immigration has been seemingly a foundational pillar of One Nation policy. During her first speech to federal parliament, Hanson alleged Australia was in danger of being "swamped by Asians", that migrants never assimilated, and that multiculturalism should be abolished.

Its website currently states One Nation would "cut immigration by over 570,000 people" through "capping visas at 130,000 per year".

In a social media post on Sunday, Hanson wrote that NOM would be cut to 130,000 — a figure the party has previously clarified to SBS News . This number would be achieved by reducing international students, temporary graduate visas, and a "much more targeted" skilled migration program, Hanson said.

Those figures are different to the ones put forward by Farley, who said One Nation is focusing on "the NOM in its true form", as separate to labour programs "that drive our economy".