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“Majority of Australians now say immigration is too high Another of the survey’s most significant year-on-year findings is on immigration, the subject of increasingly heated debate in Canberra.”

“The findings come amid a profound realignment of Australian politics, with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation surging in national opinion polls, the major parties struggling to retain voters and fierce debates over immigration, antisemitism and social cohesion…”

“…ing a guest worker economy? - As it happened: Labor unveils immigration overhaul - What Australians really think: The migration pathways voters want slashed - Listen: Samantha Selinger-Morris and Brittany Busch discuss One Nation’s immigration plan Cut…”

“The party, which won its first lower house seat in May, also wants to cap net overseas immigration to 130,000, drawing a rebuke from Burke who said such a proposal would risk "smashing parts of the Australian economy".”

“…ing a guest worker economy? - As it happened: Labor unveils immigration overhaul - What Australians really think: The migration pathways voters want slashed - Listen: Samantha Selinger-Morris and Brittany Busch discuss One Nation’s immigration plan Cut…”

“Joining stand-in host Natassia Chrysanthos and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal in a new Inside Politics episode with Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the immigration department.”

“"I think the problem is that whenever any party talks about immigration they use these sort of flashy headline numbers that … appeal hugely to people who want less immigration, terrify everybody who relies on immigration, and we get this sort of big swirling…”

“When MPs debated the Federation bill, they were deciding not just who would be let into Australia, but who would be allowed to become Australian.”

“If ever there was a fake news item, then our so-called major immigration issue is it.”

“Anyone trying to weigh the so-called “immigration debate” should spend some time in an Australian hospital.”

“…stripes come under pressure to appease public anxiety about immigration, a 10-year analysis of lower migration scenarios using Parliamentary Budget Office tools exposes the economic and fiscal consequences of blunt measures to bring fewer people to the…”

“LoadingImmigration retreat also one from Asia Given the temper of our immigration debate, perhaps the least popular argument one can make right now is for Australia to get bigger.”

“Immigration has become the convenient answer to every difficult question in Australian politics.”

“Mark Cully, an economist and author of Waves of Plenty: Immigration and the Making of Australia, says such a policy would be “unprecedented”.”

“With basic services struggling, why can’t Australians benefit from our gas exports as Norwegians and Omanis do?”

“On the cultural and political rationale, Abbott echoed One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce in saying the terror attack on December 14 last year lit the fuse for the current debate on migration.”

“As the grandson of one of Australia’s most famous and most successful immigrants it feels like it’s my duty to make an intervention into the debate around the significance of immigration in the cultural, social and economic fabric of this country.”

“This ridiculous numbers game steals the oxygen from any debate about important issues.”

“The senator also linked the rise of the right to debates over climate change, women’s rights and immigration, and said progressive parties needed to overcome their own divisions.”

“On the weekend, Angus Taylor promised he would “deliver one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australian history”.”

“One Nation and the Coalition want to drastically cut immigration and are smashing the government on the idea that they have allowed a "mass migration" program.”

“Angus Taylor vows ‘one of the biggest cuts to immigration in Australian history’ Kat Wong The federal opposition leader, Angus Taylor, has vowed to deliver one of the biggest immigration cuts in Australia history and called Labor “socialist in all but name”…”

“In One Nation’s regional policy mix, immigration falls behind water buybacks and anti-net zero.”

“Surely Senator Hanson must be more exposed now than ever to her association with Trumpian politics, which most Australians – if not all – reel in horror from?”

“…on Live updates Migration target 'bad idea', says expert An immigration expert has told the ABC political debate about net overseas migration is "numerical theatre about the wrong number" as he urges policy makers to focus on addressing temporary migration…”

“‘I would love to see a plan’: Pocock rips into migration debate David Pocock says the government needs to stop faffing about and actually deliver a plan and have a serious conversation about immigration.”

“Concerns she raised about high immigration, Indigenous policy failures, government waste and a political class detached from ordinary Australians were regularly dismissed as beyond the pale before the major parties adopted watered down versions of each of…”

“He says the move would help with the immigration debate: One of the problems we have is ‘who are we?’, ‘who are we inviting you to be part of?’ If we stood up for who we are and were proud as a nation, we could get onboard and deal with issues that flow out…”